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Scientific illustration of a colorful beetle: blue wings, red body, fine white hairs.

Science Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013

13 July 2026 grant 0

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. […]

Scientific illustration of an early 20th-century microscope, elegant curves and shining tubes.

Science Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900

6 July 2026 grant 0

An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog). It’s described by the editors thusly: Crouch’s […]

Scientific illustration of a very simple flight simulator from the early 1960s.

Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.

29 June 2026 grant 0

This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which was published in a journal called (deep breath) […]

Scientific illustration of a brilliant green bird perched on a branch.

Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895

22 June 2026 grant 0

This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published in the June 1895 issue of […]

Scientific illustration of 1960s circuitry, a cathode-ray tube as it plots a graph.

Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.

15 June 2026 grant 0

This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used for a high-speed printer/plotter. It’s enlarged […]

Scientific illustration of a sunrise seen from space, snapped by the astronauts aboard the International Space station orbiting over Vietnam.

Science Art: Sunrise – Philippine Sea, 2017

8 June 2026 grant 0

This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space […]

Scientific illustration of the machinery used in the Parisian sewers, a cart with gears and a light.

Science Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.

1 June 2026 grant 0

There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. Belgrand.)”. This is engineering from the third quarter […]

Scientific illustration of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a bearded man in small, oval glasses, apparently wearing pajamas and a capacious overcoat as he sketches rocket bodies, while over his shoulder, a strange white barbell-shaped craft navigates through the inky blackness of space.

Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.

25 May 2026 grant 0

I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is actually a detail from the full […]

Scientific illustration of fish guts, the innards of a whitefish in black and white ink. It's very ... organic.

Science Art: Fowler – Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.

18 May 2026 grant 0

This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.” But this isn’t the eye. It’s the alimentary canal, […]

Scientific illustration of a mathematical shape, a circular paraboloid, looking a little like a stained-glass arch or a checkerboard dome standing by a reflecting pool.

Science Art: Paraboloide Circular 02, by Rodrigo Argenton

11 May 2026 grant 0

This is a circular paraboloid, a shape with “one axis of symmetry and no center of symmetry,” according to Wikipedia, which also, helpfully, says a […]

Scientific illustration of 19th century apparatus, gears and wheels and tubes, for determining altitude and azimuth. It's all very complicated.

Science Art: Azimuth and Altitude Instrument, c. 1876

4 May 2026 grant 0

This is an illustration from the Great Exhibition, 1876, or The great Centennial exhibition critically described and illustrated, by Phillip T. Sandhurst, which you can […]

Scientific illustration of solar flares with the Earth to scale, showing how big they are compared to our planet. Orange fronds reaching across a pale purple void toward a small, dark ball.

Science Art: Solar Explosions, G79, by Clement Lindley Wragge.

27 April 2026 grant 0

This is a slide from the magic lantern shows of Clement Lindley Wragge, a popularizer of astronomy, a meteorologist, and a Theosophist mystic who died […]

Scientific illustration of the North Pole of Mars, as photographed by a Chinese space probe, looking like a nautilus shell.

Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck

20 April 2026 grant 0

Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1. “CNSA” is the China National Space […]

Scientific illustration of a moon mission's path from Earth to the moon and back again.

Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX

13 April 2026 grant 0

This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home. It’s a few […]

Scientific illustration of microbes in a simplified style, almost like a clothing pattern from the 1970s.

Science Art: Chromista

6 April 2026 grant 0

An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable, […]