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Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS

5 February 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news. This image, […]

Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.

29 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where […]

Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898

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Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]

Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix

15 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen vastly Not your average seahorse. They’re pretty cool. And totally real! Not made up or anything!

Science Art: Mammiferes, Pl. 3, from Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle, 1849

8 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Behold, the seat of consciousness and feeling. Maybe not the source, but the seat. From Charles Dessalines D’Orbigny’s Universal Dictionary of Natural […]

Science Art: Rift in Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf, by NASA/John Sonntag

2 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen Big valley in the Antarctic ice. A bonus image for the New Year, from NASA’s Image Gallery, photographed a couple weeks before […]

Science Art: Mt. Balfour, Antarctica, by NASA/Joe MacGregor

2 January 2017 grant 0

Click to embiggen This photo is part of NASA’s IceBridge mission, an airborne survey of polar ice, which completed an eighth consecutive Antarctic deployment on […]

Science Art: Picea excelsa, Walter Mueller, 1886.

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Click to embiggen A spruce tree, for the second day of Christmas. From Dr. Prof. Thomé’s Flora von Deutschland, Oesterreich und der Schweiz, in Wort […]

Science Art: Plate 20. – Skeletons of the cross between the English bulldog and bassethound showing contrast in leg length…, 1941

18 December 2016 grant 0

My old dog was a basset. And now there’s a bulldog in my house. I’m not sure how dogs happen, but they do. This is […]

Science Art: Astronaut John H. Glenn Jr. confers with astronaut nurse Dolores B. O’Hara, 1962

12 December 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen Astronaut and astronaut nurse, getting ready to stick another metaphorical toe into the metaphorical water of the eternal icy void of space, […]

Science Art: The Sun, December 4, 2016, Wavelengths 304-211-171

5 December 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen Look up just right, and this is what you’ll see. From the “Sun In Time” page of the Solar Dynamics Observatory’s Atmospheric […]

Science Art: Oral Cavity and Paranasal Sinuses – Coronal View exhibit, from Our Body: The Universe Within

27 November 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen Someone went to the museum today. This has always been one of my favorite bits of human anatomy, the spirals inside our […]

Science Art: “Various Forms of Trachelomonas” (detail of “INFUSORIA”), 1883

20 November 2016 grant 0

Aren’t they the cutest little things? These are kinds of Euglena, the weird little microscopic critters that are animals with plant-like characteristics – some of […]

Science Art: 16-Foot Transonic Tunnel, 1990

14 November 2016 grant 0

Click to embiggen This might look like a jet plane’s engine, but it’s really a thing to test jet planes – supersonic ones. It’s a […]

Science Art: Schéma de montage d’un turbopropulseur by Nerijp

7 November 2016 grant 0

This is a turbine – a “turbopropulseur” – used as an example of a “réducteur” – a reducing gear. The one end spins a lot […]

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  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
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  • Dr. Jim Webb, astronomy professor and acoustic guitarist.
  • Artichoke, the band behind 26 Scientists, Vols. I and II.
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