Science Art: Map, Glen Tilt, Tayside, by James Hutton
I’m not sure exactly what this is a map of (other than Glen Tilt, Tayside), because there’s not much information on the USGS page where […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience 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, …
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SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016, as used […]
Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted: An analysis of satellite data has […]
Science Art: Woodcut: H. Regius proving spirits in the slug, in flask, 1654.
Click to embiggen This is a slug in a bottle. To be more specific, it’s “Illustrations of the experiments of H. Regius to prove the […]
Bacteria movement could power tiny machines.
Wired is thinking big about something much, much smaller than a hamster in a wheel – powering microscopic machines with “bacterial windfarms”: The natural movement […]
Cemetery find reveals Philistine secrets.
National Geographic discusses how a dig at Ashkelon, in southern Israel, might unravel who the Philistines really were – and how they might be related […]
Thumb-sucking and nail-biting gives kids allergy resistance.
Science Daily reveals the hidden health benefits of sucking your thumb and biting your nails: The researchers [of New Zealand’s Dunedin School of Medicine, assisted […]
Science Art: Clash of the Triassic Titans: Phytosaur vs. Rauisuchian, by Julio Lacerda.
Click to embiggen This is a recreation of a weird ecosystem – one without any beef, basically. The Chinle formation, a primordial swamp in what […]
Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot: “Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a […]
Archaeologists: This New Testament is full of pee!
Live Science has more on the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis, a 1,500-year-old, purple-paged book that seems to have been dyed with fermented, boiled urine: For centuries […]
MRI Mulligan? 15 years of neuro research might just have been zapped.
Wired brings up the rather unpleasant prospect of a bug in MRI software invalidating 15 years of brain-scan results: Three of the most popular pieces […]
The Zebra Shark Madonna: Aquarium celebrates virgin birth
National Geographic describes an Australian aquarium’s wonderment at a shark that just gave birth despite being alone for three years: Aquarium keepers in Australia realized […]
Science Art: (The Wyttenbach Steam Steriliser) The book of fruit bottling, 1907.
Click to embiggen Mmm. Jelly. Jam. Apple butter. This is labeled “THE WYTTENBACH STEAM STERILISER” on on Wikimedia Commons, with some garbled dimensions. But you […]
Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.
Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking: It’s the beginning of the end […]
Rosetta’s last kiss.
Reuters waxes poetic with their description of ESA’s Rosetta space probe giving comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko one “final kiss” before crash landing near the silent Philae lander: […]