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
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?
Science Art: Nomenclature and Operation (Norden Bombsight, Mar 1945)
Click to embiggen The Norden Bombsight, from the Bombardier’s Information File (BIF) describing the components and controls. If you’ve read Slaughterhouse 5 or seen the […]
Science Art: Von Karman Vortices
Click to embiggen vastly Landsat 7 gave us this memorable look at clouds moving rapidly over the Aleutian Islands. These whorls happen, as any canoeist […]
Science Art: Food chain-2, Nordisk familjebok
Click to embiggen The circle of life, seen as a straight line. With a bird of prey at the top. There’s something totemic about it, […]
Science Art: Phallus drewesii, by Brian Perry.
Click to embiggen vastly There’s been a bit of news recently about the discovery of a large number of glowing mushroom species in various corners […]
Science Art: Colorful Stars Galore Inside Globular Star Cluster Omega Centauri
Click to embiggen This is what 100,000 stars look like. They’re just a fraction of the 10 million stars in the massive globular cluster Omega […]
Science Art: $2 Silver Certificate, 1896 (Science Presents Steam and Electricity to Commerce and Manufacture.)
Lovely ladies, all of them. Science, the mother of Steam and Electricity, presents her children to their new, lugubriously lolling caretakers. This was, of course, […]
Science Art: Flying Lemur, Webster’s New International, 1911.
This is the flying lemur, or colugo, also known as the order Dermoptera – the “skin-wings.” They’re related to shrews and bats moreso than real […]
Science Art: Voyager Spacecraft During Vibration Testing, 1977
Click to embiggen A still life from the NASA Great Images collection. This was a prototype of the craft that went on to explore the […]
Science Art: Discoaster surculus.
Click to embiggen This is Discoaster surculus. Remember last week, that ocean picture that showed millions of coccolithophores floating in the ocean, sucking up CO2 […]
Science Art: Barents Sea in Bloom (BarentsSea_TMO_2009231)
This image, a recent Picture of the Day at NASA’s Earth Observatory, takes a big view of something very small – lots and lots and […]