SONG: Hyperfocus
SONG: “Hyperfocus”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Something in The Back of Your Eye Could Reveal Whether You Have ADHD,” Science Alert, […]
Science Art: Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche, 2026
From the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio:
Read moreThis illustration depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Launched…
Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience Art: MOON: For the Benefit of Humanity, 2023
It’s a poster made by NASA for lunar exploration, showing some landers, space stations, and sample-taking equip…
Read moreScience Art: Bubble chamber with colour enhanced tracks, 2026
This is a CERN image from January 6, 2026, showing something that happened in the 1960s, but enhanced for 21st-…
Read moreScience Art: Dissection of Asterias rubens, by Hans Hillewaert.
Starfish anatomy.
If you want to know the parts, according to Dutch Wikipedia, they are:
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1 Arm
2…
Science Art: Jupiter's Family of Comets, 1898
This is a diagram from A New Astronomy For Beginners, a textbook that’s about a century and a quarter old, or a…
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ADHD diagnosed by looking deeply into your eyes.
Science Alert carries news of a Korean research project that used AI to study images of the fundus, an area of the back of the […]
Painkiller outsmarts opioids.
Science Daily reports on Duke researchers who have created a new class of painkiller that experiments show is as effective as opioids at eliminating pain […]
Science Art: Hoplocampa minuta, Plommonstekel Ugglan, 1920.
“A kind of sawfly living on plum trees,” according to the Wikimedia Commons gallery of images from Nordisk familjebok. They’re considered a pest — the […]
SONG: Bed Chem (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover)
SONG: “Bed Chem” (a penitential Sabrina Carpenter cover). (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This wasn’t based on any scientific research. It’s a cover of […]
Science Art: Cardiac Devices, Medtronic
This is a poster snapped in my cardiologist’s (actually, electrophysiologist’s) office. These are all machines that are put into your heart to track its beating […]
Growing worry over “ChatGPT-induced psychosis”
Futurism reports on anecdotal evidence of ChatGPT conversing with people in a human-like way and … drawing them further and further into an authoritative-sounding, real-feeling […]
NASA JPL boss quits
The Register reports on the director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory suddenly stepping down for “personal reasons”: During the November 2024 staff cuts, Leshin cautioned: […]
Pulsars have an invisible halo
Physics Magazine takes a look at the radiation surrounding those high-energy stars that zoot-zoot-zoot out in regularly recurring intervals (stars with a pulse, in other […]
Science Art: MRO Fairing Installation, 2005.
On a fiberglass sailboat, “fairing” is a thin coat of epoxy meant to smooth out all tiny bumps and creases that sanding can’t catch in […]
Science Art: Iceland’s Coast Shows Hints of Spring, March 2024
A photo from the NASA PACE Ocean Sciences gallery. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission is a satellite observatory created by Goddard Space Flight […]
Our butts used to be sperm dispensers.
Science Alert reports on an evolutionary study that has found our butts (from which everybody, as the children’s book tells us, poops) were originally a […]
SONG: Titanium Heart
SONG: “Titanium Heart”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Man survives with titanium heart for 100 days — a world first,” Nature, 13 […]
A new color, named “olo.”
BBC reports on an odd optical experiment that resulted in human eyes seeing an entirely new color, a kind of super-saturated aqua they’ve dubbed “olo”: […]
Science Art: Woltmann’s Tachometer, 1882
Oh, hydrology. This is a device to measure the speed of water flow, as described in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating […]