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 seeing now is words or a still picture, clicky… Read the rest “Science Art: “How to Build a Human” by hellofromthemoon.”
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 astronomer), unleashed the horribly … Read the rest “Science Art: Partial Eclipse of the Moon by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot”
How a young person can launch “any number of air balloons” without the risk of setting the neighbors’ corn ricks on fire – by using a gas stove with a chimney like… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 353, Wessel’s Gas Stove”
Though it looks like postmodern architecture (Eero Saarinen, maybe?), this is actually inside your salad.
It’s a helical granum of a thylakoid stack, the part … Read the rest “Science Art: Helical Granum, by Kelvinsong”
It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice cream using frozen nitrogen. Science art… Read the rest “Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.”
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Over a million people could live here, in a double-cylinder colony in space.
From the NASA Ames Research Center’s concepts of future space colonies (as imagined… Read the rest “Science Art: Cylindrical Colonies: Interior view looking out through large windows, by Rick Guidice”
Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger was an Austrian mineralogist who during his career helped mining engineers dig better mines and looked at rocks that looked like other rocks… Read the rest “Science Art: Fall des Meteors am 9 Juni 1866, by Wilhelm Ritter von Haidinger”
Embryonic television. I like how this device has an almost Lovecraftian vibe, as if sending moving pictures was a thing that involved mystical processes. What’s in the box, man? … Read the rest “Science Art: Marconi Photo-Cell for Transmitter from Television Optics, 1938.”
What’s inside a Ukranian volcano. Or most volcanoes, wherever the are. From a Ukranian encyclopedia for Ukrainian miners (ISBN 966-7804-14-3).
Just in case you have to drive one of these, now you know where the controls are.
I like that there’s a dial labeled “Time To Go.”
Found at the NASA Johnson… Read the rest “Science Art: Mercury Spacecraft Main Instrument Panel, 1959.”
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Jellyfish. Deep sea medusae. By Ernst Haeckel and A. Giltsch.
From Vol. 4, pt.11-13 of Report on the scientific results of the voyage of /i>H.M.S. Challenger during… Read the rest “Science Art: Ptychogena Pinnulata, 1882.”
Where plants come from. (And hay fever.) These are as seen through a pretty powerful microscope – magnified 500 times – and drawn by a German pharmacist and chemist living in… Read the rest “Science Art: Tab X from Ueber den Pollen by Carl Julius Fritzsche, 1837.”
Click to embiggen vastly. You can see the astronauts’ faces!
“Here am I floating in a tin can,” indeed.
Here’s how much room some of the first humans in space –… Read the rest “Science Art: NASA spacecraft comparison, by D. Meltzer.”
Mmm. Switches. Communication.
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NASA wants you to know they’re pretty handy here on Earth, too. This here shows a way to make trains and other things that use big, strong bearings safer, by using tricks… Read the rest “Science Art: Bearing Fault Detector, 1975”
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