Science Art: Julbock, Nordisk familjebok, 1910.
This is a Julbock – a “Yule goat” – from a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
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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: Museum Drawings from Last Friday by bells.
Click to embiggen From the tumblog bequietyellingcat: museum drawings from last friday. fun fact: the dire wolf was native only to the americas, especially california. […]
Science Art: Reflections by NASA/Bill Ingalls
Click to embiggen This is it. This image of space shuttle Atlantis was taken shortly after the rotating service structure was rolled back at Launch […]
Science Art: Fig. 179. – Profile view of a human embryo of about three weeks, showing the cephalic visceral arches and clefts and their relations to the arterial arches, from Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 1898
This is a human embryo, from the first volume of an 1898 textbook for college students. The book was actually first published in the 1840s, […]
Science Art: Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy, by Holland Ford, et al. (5/25/1994)
From the image’s archive.org page: A schematic diagram of velocity measurements of a rotating disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. […]
SONG: “Humidity”
SONG: “Humidity.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Star Found Shooting Water “Bullets”, National Geographic, 13 June 2011, as […]
Science Art: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor (U.S. Patent 3,386,883)
The innards of a nuclear reactor, from a relatively recent patent application. That is, 1966. By inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. It’s a fusor, which is […]
Science Art: Batocera Wallacei, from Archives entomologiques ou Recueil contenant des illustrations d’insectes nouveaux our rares by James Thomson, 1857
Mmm. Borer beetles. Or, more precisely, Wallace’s long-horn beetle. Beetle-obsessed millionaire James Thomson’s book is on archive.org, but I found it via [Scientific Illustration].
Science Art: Laggania cambria, statue by Espen Horn (photo by H. Zell)
Click to embiggen This is an anomalocaridid – a really big, really old shrimp-like critter – named Laggania cambria. These were as big as it […]
Science Art (from new NASA exhibit): Titan, by Daniel Zeller (2005)
This ink-on-paper drawing of Saturn’s moon is one of the 70 pieces in the new “NASA/Art: 50 Years of Exploration” exhibit at the National Air […]
Science Art: “Fig 44: Painting of a Bantu Wedding Dance” from The Pre-Historic Period in South Africa, 1910
Click to embiggen It’s a party! I can’t tell if those are balloons or knobkerries. Either way, windows would have been broken… were there windows […]
SONG: Without the Sun
SONG: “Without the Sun.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Stress can shorten telomeres in childhood, Nature, 17 May […]
Science Art: RC540 stereo animation.gif by Brian0918
Click to embiggen and animate This is a large buckyball molecule – which is to say, a form of carbon, the same stuff in pencil […]
Science Art: CASENT0010677 (Cephalotes atratus), Antweb.
Click to embiggen Ants don’t actually spin webs. This striking image is one of what will ultimately be more than 11,700 photographs – no, wait, […]
Science Art: Xylophylla, by Olof Swartz, 1791 (detail)
Click to embiggen From a page of botanical babies drawn by Swedish botanist Olof Swartz just before the dawn of the 19th century. Swartz was […]