Science Art: Bunsen Burner Flame Types, by Artura Jana Fijalkowski.
Click to embiggen It’s Beltane today, May Day, a day traditionally celebrated with bonfires. Here are some smaller flames, but no less fiery. This is […]
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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: Restoration of Pliocene fauna of North America, Smithsonian Museum.
Click to embiggen vastly This is a mural at the Smithsonian Museum, showing how the Great Plains would have looked about 3 million years ago. […]
SONG: “Meat Man”
SONG: “Meat Man”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “High-Protein Diet May Have Shaped Neanderthals,” Archaeology, 30 March 2016, as used in the post Protein Diet Shaped Neanderthals. […]
Science Art: Artist’s impression of JWST, European Space Agency, 2013
Click to embiggen This is an artist’s conception of the James Webb Space Telescope, the successor to the Hubble. The European Space Agency is working […]
Science Art: Nutmeg Tree, from 40 drawings of plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, c.1824.
Click to embiggen Spice. In watercolor. It looks like it would smell delicious. From 40 Drawings of Plants at Bencoolen, Sumatra, a collection of natural […]
Science Art: The Male and Female of Caligus centrodonti.
Click to embiggen Double check all your eggs – just in case. Happy Easter! The handsome couple in the image came from North American parasitic […]
SONG: “Not a Pony.”
SONG: “Not a Pony”. ARTIST: grant, featuring Enok Webb. SOURCE: “Horse-sized tyrannosaur may be long-sought missing link in T.rex evolution,” Washington Post, March 14, 2016, […]
SONG: “Atomic Number” (a penitential cover)
SONG: “Atomic Number”. ARTIST: grant. (Originally by case/lang/veirs.) SOURCE: This doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential cover of a new song by case/lang/veirs, […]
Science Art: Plate XII foldout by Thomas Davidson, from The geologist : a popular monthly magazine of geology.
These are fossilized shells from Thomas Davidson’s “On Some Fossil Brachiopoda,” or “Palaeontological Notes on the Brachiopoda,” from this magazine dedicated to amateur geologists published […]
Science Art: ISS016-E-032414 (Underside of Space Shuttle Endeavour), 2008
Click to embiggen NASA has some of the best perspectives on the planet (and some of the planet’s best perspectives). Like so. This is a […]
Science Art: LEAF Sound Horn, by ESA – A. Le Floc’h
Click to embiggen This is a big horn for making big noise. It’s the way the European Space Agency tests how satellites stand up to […]
SONG: Janssen
SONG: “Janssen.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists just analyzed the atmosphere of a ‘super-Earth’ for the first time,” Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2016, as […]
Science Art: Figure 4, Neopteroplax conemaughensis, 1963
Click to embiggen Such a winning smile…. Neopteroplax was, at one point, something like a crocodile of salamanders – an amphibian about 3 meters long […]
Science Art: VII. Scientific Literature, by Finnish artists.
Click to embiggen This is a chapter heading from the book Finland in the Nineteenth Century: by Finnish authors, illustrated by Finnish artists, published in […]
SONG: Heavy In My Head
SONG: “Heavy In My Head.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Anxiety can impact people’s walking direction,” Science Daily, 19 Jan. 2016, as used in the […]