The way we grew up thinking about atoms – like teeny tiny solar systems with electrons orbiting a nucleus like planets around a sun – is wrong. They move in clouds… Read the rest “Science Art: Hydrogen Density Plots, by PoorLeno”
This is what a chunk of Northwest Australia looks like from the International Space Station.
It was created as part of the EarthKAM project, “Earth Knowledge Acquired… Read the rest “Science Art: IMAGE_7222, EarthKAM Spring 2010 Mission.”
This is a pile of unusual fish from The illustrated natural history, vol. 3, by John George Wood, London, circa 1863. The Brothers Dalziel were the most celebrated (perhaps)… Read the rest “Science Art: Shovel-fish & spoonbill sturgeon by the Brothers Dalziel”
On October 14, 1947, “stick and rudder man” Chuck Yeager proved that you didn’t dissolve, explode or travel through time if you went faster than the speed of sound. He… Read the rest “Science Art: Bell X-1A In Flight (aviation anniversary tribute 2)”
On October 18, 1910, a team of… well, what would we call them? They take machines and go through the air like birds, so let’s call them aviators. A team of aviators made the first… Read the rest “Science Art: Wellman’s Airship America (aviation anniversary tribute 1)”
You’ve been reading these updates for some time, so of course you know of my deep and profound love for bringing scientific research and homemade creative stuff together. Of course… Read the rest “Etsy partners with NASA. Gives away prizes.”
Etsy crafter Andy Lowry, who sells under the “why girls go astray” shingle, created this delightful decoupage plate (that you eat from) using delightful Haeckel plates (that… Read the rest “Science Art: Ocean plate, large, Andy Lowry”
This is Geosaurus, recently outed in the pages of Discovery News as “the T. Rex of the deep”:
… Read the rest “Science Art: Geosaurus, by Samuel Wendell Williston.”What’s more, metriorhynchids, the extinct relatives
I’m a tarot enthusiast. I take the same approach to the cards as do the folks behind this deck – as a good way to create meaningful stories about your life (which is a good way to … Read the rest “Science Art: 5 of Wands – Fusion, by Janelle Schneider (from Science Tarot).”
Image from PHIL, the Public Health Image Library of the Centers for Disease Control.
It’s an old-fashioned fridge, as recommended by the Minnesota Board of Health in 1929 as a means… Read the rest “Science Art: 8655 (cut-away view of a “barrel”-type milk and cream cooler)”
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station.
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NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons.
It’s pretty awesome.
So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” because it was studying that… Read the rest “Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel”
Image from Wikimedia Commons, where it soon might be deleted for making the Eotriceratops too large.
They always seem to put the people at the wrong end.
This is a photograph taken off Osprey Reef by researchers with the Sensory Neurology Group of the Queensland Brain Institute. No, not marine biologists – but scientists… Read the rest “Science Art: Deep Sea Angler, by Justin Marshall, QBI.”
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