String Theory Explained in Two Minutes.
No, really. Discover hosted a video contest. A short film about rubber duckies won. Look: Or, go see it – and other contenders – on […]
Science Art
Science Art: Meridiani Water, 27 Feb 2006
Click for larger image For the last of our month-of-Sputnik space art posts, here’s more imagery of the hematite plains of Mars. This false-color infrared […]
Science Art: Opportunity on Meridiani Planum, 8 May 2005
The dusty hematite plains of Mars, as seen by the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. This is, more or less, the place where Opportunity found evidence […]
The Ares V
Behold the mighty propaganda of a mighty space agency! NASA’s (computer generated) video of the very big (notional) Ares V rocket, launching a Very Large […]
Science Art: Astronaut Bruce McCandless on the Canadarm, February 1984
See more space walks (or, erm, space “surfs”) at NASA (of course), at a site belonging to someone named “Texas Jim” (showing Endeavour over Hurricane […]
Science Art: STEREO’s SECCHI-Extreme Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope, 5 March 2007
This image from NASA’s Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory shows our sun’s atmosphere in the temperature range of 1.5 million degrees Celsius. It’s part of a […]
Science Art: Sputnik, 1957
A technician looks over history’s first satellite prior to its October 5, 1957 launch. Happy anniversary, outer space.
Science Art: Temporary Chimneys and Fire Fountains, Constance Gordon-Cumming, c.1880
Click for larger version Read more on Scottish traveler Constance Gordon-Cumming and her experiences with the unique geothermal phenomena of Yellowstone (pdf file) – as […]
Science Art: Albinus & Wandelaar
Tabulae sceleti et musculorum corporis humani by anatomist Bernard Albinus and illustrator Jan Wandelaar, 1747. Apparently, the rhino’s name was Clara, and she was quite […]
Science Art: Planisphæri cœleste, by Frederik de Wit, 17th century
Click for larger version Frederik de Wit was a Dutch cartographer of the 1600s, a time when the Dutch were using maps like never before. […]
Science Art: Exterior View of a Double Cylinder Colony
From NASA’s collection of 1970s space colony art. There are much larger versions available in their archive. —- Bonus link: the Living Room of the […]
Science Art: Compact Muon Solenoid of the Large Hadron Collider
This is how CERN is hoping to find the Higgs Boson. At 40 feet long, it is the biggest superconducting solenoid ever made, costing $65 […]
Science Art: William Herschel Telescope
from Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, La Palma, Picture Archives, (via Barbelith).
Science Art: Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis…
Romanae archetypae tabulae anatomicae novis… is a 1783 edition of a book of anatomical poses written by Bartolomeo Eustachi and illustrated by Giulio de’Musi in […]
Science Tattoos
Some researchers wear their subjects of study underneath their sleeves. I quite like the octopus….