Hydrogen: a different perspective.
Yeah, so I kind of really want this poster now.
Science Art
Science Art: Dragon Lake, Siberia
Click to embiggen vastly This is Dragon Lake, a body of very cold water near the city of Bratsk. It’s a reservoir, like Arizona’s Lake […]
Science Art: The U.S.S. Los Angeles moored on the U.S.S. Pakota, 1924
Click to embiggen. This is the US Navy’s airship Los Angeles, the most successful of America’s rigid-body airships, engaging in a maneuver that proved dirigibles […]
Science Art: Cormorant, by Bob Hines.
These are cormorants – the birds that swim underwater to catch fish. I fell in love with cormorants reading Ping as a little boy (on […]
Science Art: “A Pigeon Fancier’s Manual,” by Ruth Padel.
I found this poem among three books of scientific poetry reviewed in Science Magazine, 2 October 2009. It’s from Darwin: A Life in Poems by […]
Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.
Click to embiggen. These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. […]
Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.
William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything […]
Science Art: The Known Universe by AMNH
The American Museum of Natural History revisits “Cosmic Zoom”, starting at the Himalayas and moving outward (and, as far as we can see, backwards in […]
Science Art: Chinchilla, Webster’s New International Dictionary, 1911
Behold a crepuscular rodent. In this case, I suppose, a fractional crepuscular rodent. (That means they like going out at dusk and dawn… creatures of […]
Science Art: (MAPS fundraiser) “Candy Dish” Psychedelic Synthesis Lab Art Glassware
This is custom glass art from the laboratory of Sasha Shulgin, the chemist who gave us MDMA and a host of other psychoactive compounds. It’s […]
Science Art: Mantis Shrimp by R.A. Lydekker.
The mantis shrimp, Stomatopoda, is one of the most terrifying sea creatures under three feet long. At least to me. They move exceptionally fast and […]
Science Art: Light-Toned Deposits in Noctis Labyrinthus (ESP_014353_1685)
Click to embiggen Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. It’s part of their project called HiRISE in which they’re taking photographs of Mars. High Resolution […]
Science Art: First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home
Click to embiggen. This is a different way of looking at planet Earth. It’s an image from the ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft. The sliver of land […]
Science Art: “Planetensystem”, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1885.
Click to embiggen This is the place where we live – our celestial family – as seen by the educated reader in the Age of […]
Science Machine!
The Onion reveals where science comes from. We *knew* it, didn’t we?