Science Art: Ecphora gardnerae, by J.C. McConnell
Click to embiggen A shellfish that was around when megalodons swam and the first crows flew. It was drawn by J.C. McConnell, a doctor who […]
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Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
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SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump.”
SONG: “Jump, Jump, Jump”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Fish and Adaptation: Mangrove Fish Jumps into Air in Warming Water”, Nature World News, 21 Oct […]
Science Art: New invented Machine, for deepning and cleansing Docks, &c., 1775.
Click to embiggen In 1775, Pennsylvania Magazine wanted its readers to be up to date on the very latest in technological advances, including this machine […]
SONG: All Praise Black Ice
SONG: “All Praise Black Ice”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto”, NASA.gov, 8 Oct 2015, as […]
Science Art: Taf. V: Feuer-Salamander by Bruno Dürigen.
Fire salamanders. They don’t look so hot. [via]
Science Art: Chemical Laboratory room. Experimental Research labs, Burroughs Wellcome and Co. Tuckahoe, New York
Click to embiggen Welcome to Wellcome. They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more […]
Science Art: Idolo de ignota localidad, Idolo de Arica, Idolo de ignota localidad.
Click to embiggen. Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910. I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Science Art: A Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze…, 1905.
Click to embiggen The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according to Google, […]
Science Art: Gate of Lodore, from the Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories.
Behold the West. This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and […]
Science Art: Pluto as seen by New Horizons
Click to embiggen A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA. Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
Science Art: Five of Spades, from Playing Cards: Engineering
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of […]
Science Art: Red White Blood Cells, by NCI-Frederick.
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny. Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute […]
SONG: Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)
SONG: “Levitating Diamonds (Tiny Impossible Things)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Based on “Lasers used to levitate glowing nanodiamonds in a vacuum”, Science Daily, 7 Sep 2015, as […]
SONG: One (is the Loneliest Number) (penitential cover)
SONG: “One (Is The Loneliest Number)”. ARTIST: grant, featuring Sebastian Balfour. (Originally by Harry Nilsson.) SOURCE: It doesn’t have a research source. It’s a penitential […]
Science Art: To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet.
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo. I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such […]