Science Art: Echinodermata, Plate V detail, by James A. Grieg, 1921
This is the heart (and brain and pretty much anything that’s not an arm) of a brittle star, as sketched for Echinodermata, a study of […]
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, …
Read moreWhat do you call a dinosaur that isn’t afraid of anything? Dreadnoughtus.
Popular Mechanics celebrates a new *double* record-breaker, a dinosaur bigger than anything that walked the Earth: Today an international team of paleontologists unveiled the newest […]
Brain-to-brain communication via EEG over the internet.
Science Daily breaks the news that telepathy – brain communication through machines – is not only possible, but scientists have already done it across 5,000 […]
Neanderthals made art. Like we do.
The Associated Press (through the Wall Street Journal and other outlets) has been sharing the discovery of the artwork that changes the way we think […]
Best headline contender: “Russia confirms death of five geckos on space sex mission”
The Guardian brings a small tragedy happening a long, long way away vividly home with 10 well-chosen words: Russia confirms death of five geckos on […]
Magnets zap memories into brains.
ScienceDaily has more on a Northwestern University experiment using transcranial magnetic stimulation to improve memory: The discovery opens a new field of possibilities for treating […]
Science Art: Urban Expansion of Shenyang, China, 2014.
Click to embiggen vastly. This is a story of explosive growth, as told by the USGS Landsat satellite, and recorded in the Earth Earth Resources […]
Moving rocks caught on camera.
You might have heard, like many Discovery News readers, of the weird moving rocks of Death Valley – the ones with the long, curving trails […]
Vampire science: a red fountain of youth for Alzheimer’s patients.
Young blood. New Scientist sketches out the future of rejuvenation with experiments based on using young blood to keep old brains lively: Disregarding vampire legends, […]
Climate change and social upheaval, the last time around…4,000 years ago.
The National (of the UAE) reports on radical new ways to deal with climate change… from the dawn of civilization: The Bronze Age transition from […]
Science Art: The moon’s influence on earth’s tides, c 1930s.
A planetary self-portrait, apparently from Wonderland of Science, a book published in the 1930s. [via scientificillustration.tumblr.com]
SONG: “Rosetta”
SONG: “Rosetta.” (To download: https://guildofscientifictroubadours.com/choons/grant-Rosetta2.mp3 ) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “‘We’re in orbit!’ Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit comet”, CNN, 6 Aug 2014, […]
Oceans are hiding global warming… for now.
The Atlantic, the Pacific… are sinks. Heat sinks. So says Scientific American, explaining that temperatures haven’t risen as sharply as they could have (YET) because […]
Triathlete uses internet to defeat her rare genetic disease
The Atlantic gives hope to the new generation of WebMD obsessives with a fascinating tale of an athlete who used the internet to figure out […]
Clawed worm rewrites evolutionary history.
A prehistoric worm with claws, says Live Science, has rewritten the origin story of crabs, spiders and mosquitos: According to a new study of the […]