Google Street View goes inside the Large Hadron Collider.
Says it all right there. You want to see inside the world’s largest particle accelerator? Street View will take you into the underground tunnels: We’re […]
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 moreNASA launching 3D printer into space.
ABC (the American network) asks why send a toolbox into orbit when you can send one tool that makes all the other ones?: In NASA […]
Science Art: Sangüesa, S. Maria La Real, Portal, Queens on West Side, by Georgiana Goddard King, 1915.
A plate from the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 19, “French Figure Sculpture on Some Early Spanish Churches.” Photographed from below a deep basement. That’s […]
Curiosity found water on Mars. Like, a lot.
Space.com has more on the Wet Red Planet: NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has found that surface soil on the Red Planet contains about 2 percent […]
Jaws. (As in what you eat with.) This fish had ’em first.
ABC (the Australian one) reveals a whale of a prehistoric puzzle piece – or at least a missing link that paleontologists have finally reeled in: […]
Catch a snooze, take a whiff and conquer fear.
Washington Post rousingly reports on a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and, um, aromatic approach to deep-seated anxiety – with a psychological trick to beat fear with smells […]
SONG: “Better Man”
SONG: “Better Man” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior,” Scientific American, 27 […]
Science Art: Beetle (ASIC) by Sven Loechner
The Beetle (ASIC) is a chip designed for the Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator designed to recreate the Big Bang. It’s part of […]
Stay in bed for 70 days, get paid $18,000, help the cause of space exploration. Hat trick!
Outside has an enticing offer for the world’s fittest couch potatoes and La-Z-Boy astronauts. A new NASA project wants YOU to lie in bed for […]
Music sharpens your brain responses.
Laboratory Equipment investigates the connection between musical training and quick brain responses: Scientists have long known that moving to a steady beat requires synchronization between […]
When robots get 21-gun salutes.
PBS is holding a conversation with Reddit about anthropomorphism and what happens when soldiers start treating their machines like comrades – tools with personalities: “They […]
Green cement is strong cement. Sweet, strong cement.
Laboratory Equipment reports on byproduct of the sugar industry that happens to make a more effective, environmentally friendly cement: New research from the Niels Bohr […]
The scientific secrets of whale earwax.
You want to learn about the hidden history of the ocean? Look within, Nature says… within the earwax of a mighty blue whale: The team, […]
3D smartphone display, no glasses required.
We’re getting closer to having hologram projectors in our pockets, as befits people living in the future. PhysOrg reports on the latest step – a […]
Science Art: Saturn V S-II (Stage Two), NASA illustration.
This is the second stage of the Saturn V rocket – where liquid hydrogen and smoked salmon liquid oxygen were combined to make fuel and […]