Click to embiggen Welcome to Wellcome. They’ve got all kinds of wonderful things in their image gallery, including this marvelous experimenter in an even more […]
Click to embiggen. Three idols, from the Anales del Museo Nacional de Chile, published between 1892 and 1910. I found them in the Biodiversity Heritage […]
Click to embiggen The translation of “a Querschnitt durch die Wurzelspitze von Equisetum hiemale dicht unterhalb der Scheitelzelle nach Naegeli und Leitgeb,” according to Google, […]
Behold the West. This is the frontispiece to a scientific report, the Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and […]
Click to embiggen A photo of that icy, cold, faraway, beautiful neighbor, just snapped by NASA. Found in the New Horizons Image Gallery.
This is one of a whole deck of… well, they’re practically a technological tarot, really. They’re playing cards illustrating concepts in engineering. (The two of […]
The one carries oxygen around, the other keeps the system clean. They’re teeny tiny. Image from the Electron Microscopy Facility at The National Cancer Institute […]
To Scale: The Solar System from Wylie Overstreet on Vimeo. I like the desert in Nevada already because of the sense of perspective – such […]
Click to embiggen This is a jellyfish drawn by Philip Henry Gosse, a naturalist and Creationist (!) who gave us the word “aquarium” as a […]
Click to embiggen From John P. Ralston’s “The Bohr Atom of Glueballs,” an article describing how to model an atom using rope and glue. Sort […]
Click to embiggen These are prehistoric animals compared to their modern relatives and, for scale, a human. A human who’s interested in what they’re like… […]
Click to embiggen. The New Horizons Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) snapped this photo of Jupiter’s ring system on February 24, 2007, from a distance […]
Three names for one little fish. And those are just the beginning. I found this one on the Scientific Illustration tumblog, which quoted Wikipedia on […]
Click to embiggen Apparently, since last December at least, NASA has been creating vintage-style travel posters for exoplanets – the planets we’ve been discovering around […]
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