They printed a skull and stuck it in someone’s head.
Singularity Hub reports on the pioneering surgery that used 3D printing to replace 75 percent of a patient’s skull: At the beginning of March of […]
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 moreScience Art: Mei yi ge fei jie he bing ren…(Consumptive Disease), 1953.
A medical poster about pulmonary disease. I can’t read all the writing under it (other than “yi” ((one)) and “ren” ((person))), but after the cold […]
Something just blew up on the Moon.
A couple months ago, NASA witnessed the largest impact on the Moon in 8 years: “On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of […]
Coloring in the blues.
Berkeley researchers have mapped out connections between the music we hear and the colors we see. That is, blues music really is blue, and Mozart’s […]
Computing with light.
Science Daily isn’t talking about fiberoptics. They’re looking at the latest breakthroughs that take the “electrons” out of “electronics” by using photons to process information: […]
“Space Oddity” by Commander Chris Hadfield
If you’re going to say goodbye to the International Space Station….
Science Art: Doris, from Le Larousse Pour Tous, 1909.
“Genre de mollusques gastropodes, renfermant des animaux nus, de touts les mers.” A popular genre of gastropods. Also the name of a boat (a dory, […]
Plants talk. Using fungus-phones.
BBC opens the weird world of vegetable communication, revealing the fungal networks plants use to signal one another: But below ground, most land plants are […]
Self-assembling robot worms.
Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts: Researchers […]
The guitar thing WORKS, man.
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive: Across cultures, the research would suggest, male […]
SONG: Aeronaut, Come.
SONG: “Aeronaut, Come” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Charles A. A. Dellschau Dreams of Flying: The Amazing Story […]
Science Art: “Star Wounds” of the Earth, 400 million years, 1998 stamp, Ukraine
Par avion? [Image via Wikimedia Commons]
An antibiotic robs pretty women of their power over men. I am not making that up.
Nature publishes a study on minocycline (remember that name, stupid men, it’s a kind of tetracycline), which not only kills germs but also keeps men […]
Cannibals of Jamestown
Smithsonian unfolds an ugly story archaeologists have uncovered of the first “successful” English settlement in America – at Jamestown, where settlers got so hungry, they […]
Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers: Researchers at the University of […]