SONG: White coffee and omelets.
SONG: “White Coffee and Omelets.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Cut Sugary Drinks; Add Coffee, Eggs“, Laboratory Equipment, 20 February 2015,as used in the post […]
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…
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Science Art: B.T. Babbit’s Low Pressure Canal Boat Steam Enterprise, 1876
Click to embiggen A big, useful boat, from Industrial America: Manufacturers and Inventors of the United States, 1876. [via New York Public Library Digital Collections]
Breakfast is championed (at last)
Laboratory Equipment preaches the (newly embraced) health benefits of a cholesterol-laden, high-caffeine breakfast, championing the joys of coffee and eggs, hold the sugar, not the […]
Stronger than spider silk
Washington Post reveals the natural substance that beats spider silk for toughness, and diamonds for hardness – and it’s limpet teeth: In a study set […]
Meet the Ruby Seadragon
Science Daily introduces us to a brand new sea creature, bright red and fantastically delicate, dubbed the ruby seadragon: Using DNA and anatomical research tools, […]
The DNA hard drive.
New Scientist marvels at the ability of DNA to store information, with a realization that glassed-in genes could safely store information for millennia: Just 1 […]
Telescopic contact lenses
They’re not exactly pretty yet, but New Scientist has the skinny on a real James Bond-style super-gadget, telescopic contact lenses: Developed by a team led […]
Science Art: Variation of the Electron Density with Altitude in the Venusian Ionosphere, 1975.
A look at the solar wind – charged particles whipping off our nearest star – and what they do to the second planet out, Venus. […]
Again, airships. With a little difference.
CityMetric takes a look at why the zeppelins went down in the end… and how one new system might bring them back Today, the Van […]
A social network for sharing your DNA. Online, I mean.
Fusion has the details on the growing community of DNA uploaders: Members of openSNP upload their genes along with things like their sex, age, eye […]
One dad, two moms… on the cellular level. Now, legal. Almost.
Nature reports on a British legal ruling that’s a world-first, a step toward allowing medical scientists to create “three-parent” embryos: This technique, known as mitochondrial […]
The age of the elephant rats.
Live Science describes a new sort of prehistoric monster – a bull-sized rodent with elephant-like tusks: An amateur paleontologist first unearthed the skull of an […]
Science Art: Plate 3. Compare this medical high frequency apparatus…
A bygone medical device, as preserved on the Public Domain Review’s selections from High Frequency Electric Currents in Medicine and Dentistry by Samuel Howard Monell, […]
Faces of the sons of the Khans, in living color
CNTV reports on the discovery of Yuan Dynasty artwork – a trove of murals from the time when the Khans ruled: The tomb was discovered […]
Mystery stone might have unknown Anglo-Saxon writing.
Or, Live Science kinda sorta points out, it might not. But the thing sold as a “garden ornament” is certainly ancient and mysterious: The hefty […]