Science Art: Aard-wolf, Webster’s New International
Proteles cristata, the earth-wolf of southern Africaraman amplifier. He’s got a guilty look about him, doesn’t he? He knows what the other hyenas have been […]
Science Art
Science art: Cannabis sativa, Nordisk familjebok
Happy 4/20, all you stoners. This is where rope comes from. And paper, and oil, and birdseed, and cheese, and fabric, and…. duuuuude. Image found […]
Science Art: Ammonit-internal-xx_hg, by Hannes Grobe.
Click to embiggen vastly A partially polished ammonite fossil. At one point in history, these guys ruled the world. A few million years ago, there […]
Science Art: Bipolar direct-current generator, Webster’s New International
Where Edison’s power came from. It’s a step up from what was called, no lie, an iron-clad machine. Today, we use alternating current. (Go ahead, […]
Science Art: Ambystoma maculatum by John D. Willson
A spotted salamander, spotted in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Photo from the USGS Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative.
Science Art: Euproctis chrysorrhoea ugglan, Nordisk familjebok
Euproctis chrysorrhoea, better known as the Browntail moth. It stings our skin and devastates our farmland, and is the subject of experiments using pheromones as […]
Science Art: Northern Snakehead – Channa argus
Click to embiggen, if you dare A striking image of an invasive exotic species (native to China, Russia and Korea) that was introduced into continental […]
Science Art: Fractals.
Here, enjoy some prize-winning mathematical art.
Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..
Click to embiggen. This is what plasma looks like – gas that has been zapped hard enough that it’s now an electrical conductor. Thomas Crooke […]
Science Art: “Three Kinds of Ears” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Science Art: Exploration Imagery: S88-29653, the Project Pathfinder Autonomous Lander
Click to embiggen vastly This was what space was going to be in 1988. All acrylic paints and spindly legs. You can read more about […]
Science Art: Astronomiska Instrument, Sextant, Nordisk familjebok
The sextant is an instrument that lets you know where you are by determining the sun’s location in the sky – how far above the […]
Science Art: Lanai & Western Maui, from STS-99 Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly Topographic radar images of two Hawaiian islands. Rainbows in a void. You can read more about the image at NASA’s gallery.
Science Art: Jorge de Aguiar’s Compass Rose, 1492
Click to embiggen. From Wikimedia Commons, original in Beinecke Library, Yale University. Jorge de Aguiar was a Portuguese cartographer who explored Ethiopia and Arabia in […]
Science Art: The Dry Frost of Mars.
Click to embiggen. On Mars, the polar ice caps grow and shrink with the seasons, just like on Earth. But unlike Earth, the Martian ice […]