Science Art: Pelton Wheel, p. 1593, Webster’s New International.
Behold the Pelton wheel. This is a kind of water turbine designed to turn babbling brooks into industrious electrical generators. Beautiful imagery from the Wikipedia […]
Science Art
Science Art: S125-E-007900 (Canary Islands Vortices), STS-125 Shuttle Mission Imagery
Click to embiggen vastly June marks the official beginning of hurricane season. Here’s where they start from, whirling spirals off the coast of North Africa. […]
Science Art: Mars & Beyond, directed by Ward Kimball, 1957
What might life on Mars be like? That’s the question Disney was asking TV viewers in 1957. This has to be seen to be believed…. […]
Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)
Click to embiggen vastly You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized […]
Science Art: Schlieren photograph of a T-38 at Mach 1.1, altitude 13,700 feet, by Leonard Weinstein.
Click to embiggen This is what a sonic boom looks like, through a Schlieren camera – one outfitted to see differences in air pressure. The […]
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: 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.