Science Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appliances, contrivances and details : employed in the design […]
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Sturgeons alive today from before Columbus sailed.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports that sturgeons have been discovered to live much longer than previously thought, with some individual fish surviving more than 400 years: […]
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 as a northern elephant seal. They […]
Broken medieval skeleton first confirmed death by trebuchet
Science reports on a 14th-century skeleton found in a Scottish castle that looked like it had been hit by a bus … but, archaeologists determined, […]
Science 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 on archive.org) that also bore […]
Prehistoric toad discovered in Los Angeles
Scienmag reports on a new discovery in one of the world’s most famous (and most urban) fossil sites — an Ice Age toad species found […]
Plains tribe’s gut genes are half indigenous, half industrialized.
Cell research into a North American Northern Plains tribe’s gut biota shows that the living things inside them (the bacteria, archaea, and other microbes responsible […]
Science 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 their own aren’t […]
The Amazon jungle swallowed ancient earthworks and roads.
Science Alert reports on the discovery of a long-gone urban sprawl hidden underneath the “untouched” Amazon rain forest: Between around 600 BCE and 850 CE, […]
Science 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 four views of an echocardiogram, and […]
Looking for Civil War relics, finding a Spanish mission
Florida archaeologists got more — way more — than they bargained for when they started digging near Chipley, Florida. According to The Cooldown, an excavation […]
Stress literally goes from your brain to your gut to your bones.
Singularity reports on a new study charting the pathway that stress takes from brain to your body — literally going into the center of your […]
Science Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, on archive.org — and, […]
Nobel-winning chemist, tech founder leaves US for China.
Strange to see American political-ish news in Nature of all places (a British scientific journal, after all) but here we are. One of the world’s […]
Science Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. […]