Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS
Click to embiggen Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news. This image, […]
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Science Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreScience Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.
Click to embiggen This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where […]
SONG: By Numbers
SONG: “By Numbers.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying the brains […]
Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898
Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]
Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix
Click to embiggen vastly Not your average seahorse. They’re pretty cool. And totally real! Not made up or anything!
Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849
Click to embiggen Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling. Maybe not the source, but the seat. From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural […]
Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag
Click to embiggen Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before […]
Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor
Click to embiggen This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on […]
Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.
Click to embiggen A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas. From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort […]
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”
SONG: “Tiny Reindeer”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Reindeer are shrinking, because of warmer arctic temperatures ,” Science, 11 Dec 2016, as used in the post “Reindeer […]
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”
SONG: “Your Molecular Structure (penitential cover)”. ARTIST: grant (originally by Mose Allison). SOURCE: This song doesn’t have a scientific source; it’s a penitential cover for […]
Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941
My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do. This is […]
Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962
Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]
Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171
Click to embiggen Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see. From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric […]
Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within
Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]