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Science Art: <i>Ever See This Before?</i>, 1966.

Science Art: <i>Sunrise - Philippine Sea</i>, 2017

Science Art: <i>Égouts de Paris</i>, by Jules Ferat.

Science Art: <i>Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky</i>, by David K. Stone.

Science Art: <i>Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.</i>

Science Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.

This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …

Science Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017

This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …

Science Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.

There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…

Science Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.

I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…

SONG: Alone

SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …

Science Art: Fowler - Coregonus Nelsonii Bean.

This is an Alaska whitefish, a cousin of the salmon whose genus name, Coregonus, means “angle-eyed.”

But th…

Dim lights might make us less bright.

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Science Daily turns the lights up on Michigan State University neurological research showing sitting in a darkened room can hurt the brain’s ability to remember […]

Making wood that’s stronger than steel

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Nature has a new process for turning trees into a building material that’s tougher than girders or automobile frames: “It’s a new class of materials […]

Science Art: V alambicchi, from Acta Eruditorum, 1740.

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Click to embiggen Alembics (or alambics), used to distill and to purify. Where whiskey comes from, and all kinds of other chemistry.

Chinese tomb with sewer security.

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Xinhuanet reports on an ancient civil engineering project – a tomb from 1,000 years ago that has an elaborate system to keep water – and […]

Stonehenge architects slept here.

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The Guardian reports on a new discovery shedding light on the ancient mystery of Stonehenge – by showing us where the megalithic architects lived – […]

Science Art: 2014 Evolutionary Biology – Austrian 25 Euro, designed by Helmut Andexlinger.

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Click to embiggen Money! Monkey money! This is some currency art done in niobium and silver, honoring the discipline of evolutionary biology. I don’t think […]

Here’s what killed all those antelopes on the steppes. It’s warmer now.

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Science News gets the answers on what suddenly killed 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015: “If you come at dawn and dusk, it’s magical,” says E.J. […]

Killer whales speak human. A little.

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Of course. Of course. The Guardian reveals that orcas can use human speech when it suits them: New research reveals that orcas are able to […]

Science Art: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), by NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepi, Dec. 17, 2017.

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Click to embiggen More astronaut optimism, less everything else. From the NASA Image HQ Flickr account: Expedition 54 flight engineer Norishige Kanai of the Japan […]

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