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Scientific illustration of a planet illuminated (or perhaps formed) by a circle of orbital lights, shining down in many colors; an illustration of computer networking in a pre-internet age.

Science Art: Information Display front cover, 1972

21 August 2023 grant 0

This is the cover of the 1972 March/April issue of Information Display, Vol 9 No 2, from archive.org. Stories inside include ways to project different-sized […]

Scientific illustration of an electronic component, a photograph of a transistor enlarged.

Science Art: 2N930 NPN silicon planar transistor, by Mister rf

13 August 2023 grant 0

This is a tiny component in an amplifier, seen way up close. If you want the specifics, from the Wikimedia Commons page where I found […]

Scientific illustration of a baby lobster, Homerus americanus, with all its tiny feets and swimmerets, isn't it just the CUTEST!

Science Art: The First Larva, or the first free-swimming stage of the lobster, 1895.

7 August 2023 grant 0

Baby pictures, from The American lobster; a study of its habits and development, a Bureau of Fisheries document that I found here, at the Biodiversity […]

Scientific illustration of perspective, showing the sizes of objects of the same shape at different distances.

Science Art: If Bodies fill the Same Angle, their Size is Proportional to their Distance, 1898

30 July 2023 grant 0

This is an oddly domestic example of an astronomical principle … or maybe it only seems domestic to me because I keep a bicycle in […]

Scientific Illustration of a Lunar Landing Research Vehicle in mid-flight. It's a NASA hovercraft, basically.

Science Art: Armstrong Through the Years – LLRV-3 by NASA Graphics/Kirstin Sharrer

24 July 2023 grant 0

The Lunar Landing Research Vehicle-3 was an experimental Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) vehicle – a fancy hovercraft – that the Apollo astronauts used to […]

Science Art: Osprey in Flight, by Enrique Patino, 2011

16 July 2023 grant 0

The osprey is also known as the fish hawk, and as Pandion haliaetus, a name that comes from two parts: King Pandion II, the eighth […]

Scientific illustration of a times table.

Science Art: Binary Operations – Multiplication Mod 16, by Inductiveload.

10 July 2023 grant 0

This is a diagram of a times table. As the drawing’s description on Wikimedia Commons reads: Binary ring diagram to illustrate operators on binary numbers. […]

Scientific illustration of a meteorological diagram on a postage stamp. Looping black lines of atmospheric pressure mark an area where a warm front moves northeast where two cold fronts converge heading south.

Science Art: 100 years of international meteorological collaboration, by Karl Oskar Blase, 1973.

2 July 2023 grant 0

30 pfennigs could get you a lot of weather back in 1973 in West Germany. It commemorates a century of teaming up to watch the […]

Scientific illustration of a Torosaurus, the dinosaur with the largest skull.

Science Art: Outdated drawing of a torosaurus, 1905

25 June 2023 grant 0

I was looking these particular dinosaurs up because I recently came across a news story about the world’s largest dinosaur skull being displayed somewhere new […]

Scientific Illustration of a kind of spinosaur known as the "hell heron."

Science Art: Ceratosuchops inferodios life reconstruction, by PaleoGeekSquared

19 June 2023 grant 0

This is a kind of spinosaur-ancestor dubbed “the hell heron” by some dramatically minded scientists. C. inferodios was identified in 2021 from some fossil fragments […]

Scientific illustration of a nebula in deep space, the blue-gray "pillars of creation" rising like stony fingers of cloud against a sunset-orange backdrop, illuminated by glowing maginta spheres of new stars.

Science Art: NASA’s Chandra, Webb Combine for Arresting Views (Pillars of Creation), 2023

11 June 2023 grant 0

This is an image made by combining visible light (from the Hubble and ESO orbiting telescopes) and invisible infrared and X-ray imagery (from the Webb, […]

Scientific illustration of a banyan-dwelling plant bug named for the goddess Lakshmi. The young ones are resplendent in royal blue and crimson.

Science Art: Habitus images of Chimairacoris lakshmiae, 2015.

5 June 2023 grant 0

This is a plant bug. That’s the technical term – it’s part of that group of insects called “true bugs,” the family Miridae; plant bugs […]

Scientific illustration of public water utilities and hydrological equipment from the steampunk era.

Science Art: Intercepting Well, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, by R.S. Bross, 1882.

28 May 2023 grant 0

This is an illustration of a public waterwork taken from the pages of A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, […]

Science Art: Painted Bunting, by John James Audubon, 1841

21 May 2023 grant 0

These are painted buntings, “1.2.3. males in different states of plumage and 4. female” in the branches of a chickasaw wild plum, as displayed in […]

Scientific illustration of Chinese fisherman on two sampans, balancing on a plank between the traditional watercraft.

Science Art: Causerie sur la Peche Fluviale en Chine, 1909.

15 May 2023 grant 0

Do two sampans make a catamaran? Looks like they did for this Chinese fisherman at the dawn of the last century, angling on the river […]