Science Art: No. 1 and No. 2, from Primer of the Clinical Microscope, 1879.
A manual from Boston Optical Works, found on archive.org. Elegant lines those instruments had.
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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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…
Read moreSONG: Your Catalogue
SONG: “Your Catalogue”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: NBC News, “New wild cat species is ide…
Read more3D printing molecules to order.
Popular Mechanics takes the 3D printer to the next level – synthesizing not new shapes, but new chemicals from scratch: In a new study published […]
Magnetic mystery satellites launching tonight
Scientific American electrifies us with news of a cluster of satellites investigating the destructive power of the northern lights: The Magnetsopheric Multiscale mission, or MMS, […]
Viral science – things that spread fast.
Nature skips past the blue-and-black dress to ask: Have you seen the one about viral scholarship?: In a paper due to appear in Management Science, […]
Deutsche Bank says solar has already won.
RenewEconomy follows the money in alternative energy, and focuses on a Deutsche Bank report that finds ever-cheaper batteries will make existing solar power tech way […]
Science Art: Artist’s Impression of the GX 339-4 Black-Hole Binary System, by ESA/ATG medialab
Click to embiggen vastly The European Space Agency was watching the jets: Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel space observatory have detected emission from the base of […]
One supernova in four different places
Popular Science takes a wide-eyed look at gravitational lensing, the phenomenon responsible for splitting this supernova into four different images in the night sky: But […]
Acid casualties aren’t (almost ever).
Nature reviews a broad survey of research – two studies that conclude psychedelic drug use can’t be linked to psychosis: In the first study, clinical […]
Methane on Mars
IFLScience smells more traces of life on Mars, by curiously sniffing spikes of Red Planet methane: Since it landed on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity […]
One drink makes you cuter. (Not the people around you, but the person doing the drinking.)
Live Science grants us deep insight into the biochemistry of the bar pickup, revealing that prospective partners look a whole lot better after they’ve had […]
Programmable solids. Any shape you like.
Science magazine is shaping up for a flexible future, with a whole new kind of 3D LCD screen: The moving images we see on a […]
Science Art: Vespertilio Formosus
Click to embiggen A mouse-eared bat, from Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as found on the Biodiversity Heritage Library. It falls between a […]
Unknown Pleasures: The story behind the cover.
Scientific American digs into one of the most recognizable, most influential records (and cover images) – the astronomical story behind Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures album […]
Full body transplants.
New Scientist seems to be going a little around the bend with transplants this week (witness hand enthusiasm), especially when it comes to the prospect […]
Love (hormone) against alcoholism.
L.A. Times examines the biochemical power that love – or at least the “love hormone” oxytocin – has to neutralize alcohol and beat alcoholism: …[N]ew […]