Science Art: Introverted Millipede (Magukbaforduló ikerszelvényesek).
Click to embiggen This is an old, old fellow named Polydesmus. One of the first land animals there ever was. From the image’s description on […]
Science Art
Science Art: 254th Combat Communications Group emblem
This is the insignia of the 254th Combat Communications Group, a unit that’s normally part of the Texas Air National Guard, but if federalized, becomes […]
Science Art: Wilson’s Snipe, by W.I. Beecroft, 1912
Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as a snipe. Lots of kinds of snipe, in fact. And snipe hunting was a real thing, too. […]
Science Art: The Goodrich XH-5 Tomato-Worm Suit
Click to embiggen This might be the greatest contribution gardening ever made to space travel. In the middle of World War II, engineers were trying […]
Science Art: Tesla Coil: high-frequency discharge demonstrator, Welch Scientific Company, 1931
Click to embiggen Electrical history from PW Lanier and the Minneapolis Institute of Art: This tabletop Tesla coil was likely made for science classes, producing […]
Science Art: Lunated Nail-Tailed Kangaroo, 1863
Click to embiggen Not just a kangaroo, and not just a nail-tailed kangaroo. A lunated nail-tailed kangaroo. And a cute one, too. From John Gould’s […]
Science Art: Pipes and playing-drum of a “Leierkasten” hand-drawn organ, by Rama
Click to embiggen This is a view of one of the automatic music-making devices collected by the Centre International de la Mécanique d’Art (CIMA), a […]
Science Art: Detail from the bookplate of the English bibliographer, paleontologist and geologist Charles Davies Sherborn, 1890
Click to embiggen This image is from the Public Domain Review’s essay, “The Poetry of Victorian Science,” which is as much up this site’s alley […]
Science Art: Stripping ESO 137-001, a Hubble/Chandra composite image of a spiral galaxy.
Click to embiggen From the Astronomy Picture of the Day description: This image combines NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations with data from the Chandra X-ray […]
Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931
Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]
Science Art: A Year of Mars Weather
Click to embiggen In honor of the unusually good Mars viewing available right now, here’s a year’s worth of Martian weather images. I found this […]
Science Art: Anatomical Embroidery by Cecile Dachary
If you want to give your old-fashioned lover your heart. Or kidney. Ah, tradition. Cecile Dachary does all manner of feminine arts, always with a […]
Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.
This is an animated look at the part of human reproduction you don’t normally see on video loops on the internet (so if all you’re […]
Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
Almost a crescent. A moon of the late 1800s. An astronomical drawing from the French-born Harvard researcher who, as an entomologist (as well as an […]
Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using […]