Science Art: Le miscroscope [La Science], 1908.
This is a metal engraving by Charles Philippe Pillet, which I found in the Paris Museums Collections. It’s considered a “numismatic” piece, but I don’t […]
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…
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Whalesong is structured like a language.
Astrobiology reports on a cross-disciplinary study that has found that the song of humpback whales has the same distinct mathematical structure as a human language: […]
Women’s history found under immigrant asylum floorboards
Australia’s ABC reports on clues to a hidden past being found under the floor of a former immigration depot and women’s asylum, shedding new light […]
So here’s *why* vaccines don’t cause autism.
We are at a point where this had to be published, but Stat has here gathered the actual data into one easy-to-read explainer for why […]
Get better searches by swearing at Google.
How are we teaching the learning-machines to speak? Ars Technica reports on the discovery (or revelation, maybe) that it’s possible to do away with that […]
Science Art: Cystoidea, by Ernst Haeckel
This is one of the plates from the 100 illustrations in Kunst-Formen der Natur, or “Art Forms in Nature,” by Ernst Haeckel, a scientist – […]
Asteroid Bennu rich in ancient life-sustaining stuff.
IFL Science reports on the 121-gram sample that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe collected from Asteroid Bennu — a handful of dirt that shows a wealth of […]
Tuberculosis in Kansas City.
Reuters has what seems like a nostalgic headline from the 1800s, but no, it’s happening now. There’s an outbreak of consumption – that is, tuberculosis […]
Science Art: Boulder ejected from Halemaumau, at Kīlauea, May 11, 1925
Such was science in 1925. A man in a fedora and tie, pointing at impact craters on the ground, standing next to a large rock, […]
Bird flu still spreading in cats.
Scientific American is still following the progress of the H5N1 flu virus, and finding it’s spreading more than anyone would want — especially if you […]
SONG: They Can Make It Rain Bombs (a penitential Camper Van Chadbourne cover)
SONG: “They Can Make It Rain Bombs” . (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This isn’t based on any recent research. It’s a penitential cover […]
Science Art: Reconstrucción de Tuzoia canadensis, con Anomalocaris atrás, 2022.
This is an image from one of the ages before dinosaurs. I found it by looking for Anomalocaris, which was a sort of terrifying sea […]
Tricking the immune system into attacking tumors.
Nature reports on Chinese researchers who found a way to make the body get rid of cancer — by disguising tumors as transplanted pig organs, […]
Sustainable superglue.
Science Daily has news from Colorado State chemical researchers, who’ve found an adhesive that does the work of superglue, but is “biodegradable, tunable, and reusable”: […]
Science Art: Earth’s Shadow and Penumbra in Sections, 1898.
This delightful diagram appears on a page of A New Astronomy For Beginners that also has an almanac of “Important Future Eclipses” from 1898 (January […]