Science Art: Tadarida teniotis Rafinesque.
This is a bat from Tajikstan. According to the 2002 State of the Environment Report, it’s a rare bat. The European free-tailed bat. No, he […]
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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…
Read moreScience Art: Polar Bear – POV Cams (Spring 2014), by the USGS
As the U.S. Geological Survey puts it: This video was edited and compiled from raw footage recorded by a camera equipped radio collar that was […]
SONG: “Colonies”
SONG: “Colonies.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature, 2 Jun 2014, […]
Science Art: Peppergrass, by Zoe Keller
Click to embiggen I love peppergrass. This is a great illustration of the middle part of the plant – there are actually some narrow, spiky-looking […]
Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]
Click to embiggen Look! Look at all the birds! I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about […]
Science Art: “Dolerite” Dyke Traversing “Desert Sandstone”, 1872.
Click to embiggen From the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, volume 28. It’s a dyke, a rock formation between two layers of […]
Science Art: Compound flower with pollen no scale bar, by Philippa Uwins
Click to embiggen Here, have a flower. Up close. Colored in photoshop. Found in the Wikimedia Commons.
Science Art: Linear Motor Velocity Detection Apparatus, by James L. Johnson and Harold C. Stephens, 1969
From IBM’s patent 3470399, a device to tell how fast an electric motor is running by detecting its magnetic field.
SONG: Something Missing
SONG: “Something Missing.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Man prefers $50 3-D printed hand to $42,000 prosthetic”, Washington […]
Science Art: Inside a Bernal Sphere Colony, by Rick Guidice/NASA Ames Research Center
In the 1970s, NASA hired some artists to visualize life in three kinds of space colonies. Here, we’ve got a Bernal Sphere, a “point design […]
Science Art: Le Monde Primitif, by Adolphe-Franois Pannemaker, 1857.
Click to embiggen This eerie vision of an alien, ancient world greeted those who opened the front cover of W.F.A. Zimmerman’s Le monde avant la […]
Types of Trusses, from FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, 1940.
Ways to get that bridge finished, as described in FM 5-10 Engineer Field Manual, Communications, Construction, and Utilities (September 9, 1940) Fancy car for the […]
Science Art: Man-Made Producers of Noise, by Van Valkenburgh, Nooger & Neville, 1959.
From Basic Electronics, Part 5, a manual used by the U.S. Navy to train people in the basics of aerials, transmitters, frequency modulation and all […]
SONG: “Growing Batteries”
SONG: “Growing Batteries.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Process Turns Cellulose into Energy Storage Devices”, Laboratory Equipment, 8 […]
Science Art: Diagram to show relations in ovum in ovo, 1899.
Click to embiggen From the sizzling pages of The American Naturalist on May 1, 1889, comes Francis H. Herrick’s fascinating study of an egg that […]