Science Art: Cultures of a destructive mold called Phomopsis, by USDA-ARS
Click to embiggen Might look pretty in a dish, but you don’t want to find this on your crops – it’s bad news. This image, […]
Science Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreBad gut bacteria can cause high blood pressure.
Sure, it might be the salty food, but Science Daily says, based on work by the American Physiological Society, that the microbes in your intestines […]
We can build a quantum computer today. But it’ll be as big as a stadium.
Nature pores over the blueprints drawn up using today’s technology… and a $126 million budget… for the next big step in computing power: “Yes it […]
All mouth, no butt: Scientists find the ancestor of all vertebrates (like us).
BBC has an up-close look at the tiny, primitive face of the great-great-great-great-etc. grandaddy of anything with a backbone: They say that fossilised traces of […]
Science Art: Fig 172 – Results of Dr. Fulton’s Drift-Bottle Experiments in the North Sea, 1912.
Click to embiggen This is a map of something invisible – ocean currents – made indirectly – by releasing messages in bottles and seeing where […]
Engraved Gems of Ancient Kuwait
CPH Post Online reveals the discovery, by Moesgaard Museum scientists, of 3,500-year-old treasure in Kuwait: Danish archaeologists have been working on the tiny island of […]
In the days of Transylvania’s flying T. rexes….
New Scientist introduces us to a fearsome creature (thankfully no longer among us) that ruled the prehistoric Romanian skies like a flying tyrannosaur: New fossils […]
Government research bodies are going dark.
That’s in the “radio silence” sense, not in the sense of “shuttering their windows” or “turning bleak.” Not yet, anyway. Buzzfeed reported today the United […]
SONG: By Numbers
SONG: “By Numbers.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE:Germany to probe Nazi-era medical science,” Science, 5 Jan 2017, as used in the post “Scientists start identifying the brains […]
MASSIVE botnet army discovered on Twitter… just… sitting there.
Technology Review reports on a veritable horde of fake accounts – a network of 350,000 users – that have been ready to parrot messages en […]
Science Art: Lancashire Boiler with Galloway Tubes, 1898
Click to embiggen slightly From The Colliery Manager’s Handbook … Fourth edition, revised and enlarged, an 1898 book in the British Library’s public domain collection. […]
Finding life on Wolf 1061
Science Daily follows astronomers who have found a planet 14 light-years away that’s in just the right spot – the “Goldilocks zone” around its star […]
New way for antidepressants to work.
Science Daily reveals a new molecular pathway the brain uses to regulate anxiety and depression – a discovery that opens the door for a new […]
Life… finds a way. With a self-impregnating leopard shark.
New Scientist covers a shark who managed to make babies despite being separated from any males: Leonie the zebra shark (Stegostoma fasciatum) met her male […]
Science Art: Weedy Seadragon by Cristina Pérez Boix
Click to embiggen vastly Not your average seahorse. They’re pretty cool. And totally real! Not made up or anything!