The music of spider-silk strings.
BBC reveals a Japanese project that combines biology, engineering and beauty – spinning violin strings out of spider silk: Shigeyoshi Osaki of Japan’s Nara Medical […]
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 moreA salute: Trying and trying and trying by Gethan Dick.
Over the transom this morning, I just got word of an amazing science-music-art project that combined six University College London biomedical researchers with six bands […]
Slipping on the thinking cap.
Over at BoingBoing, Cory Doctorow waxes enthusiastic about the process of zapping your brain into a creative “flow” state: The “thinking cap” is something like […]
Acne antibiotics help treat schizophrenia.
The Independent reports on one of those weird medical side effect whodathunkits (like Rogaine and Viagra coming from blood pressure medications). Minocycline, a drug usually […]
Science Art: Building the Forth Bridge, by Charles J. de Laoy, 1909
Click to embiggen This is the Forth Bridge, spanning the famous Firth of Forth (on the way to Fife)*. And for Archibald Williams, editor of […]
Silence! You fools! You will LEARN silence!
Technology Review cuts out all the chatter with their lowdown on an honest-to-God silence ray: Today, Kazutaka Kurihara at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial […]
Six-legged giant not extinct, found hiding on remote island.
NPR describes the joy of explorers finding “extinct” tree lobsters – the world’s largest known stick insects, once native only to Australia’s Lord Howe Island […]
Wealth as a predictor of pushy driving.
I’m not sure how I feel about the science behind this, but it’s probably worth a closer look. LA Times reports on a new study […]
Bad bosses affect everything. Including the bottom line.
The Atlantic reveals just how bad it is for you, your family and your company when you’re stuck working for a bad boss: The more […]
Live in Hawaii. Pretend it’s Mars. Eat space food. Get paid.
Cornell is offering the opportunity of a lifetime for an astronaut fan: We are seeking participants for a 120 day Mars exploration analogue mission (Hawaii […]
Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon
Click to embiggen An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger. Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital […]
New World’s oldest rock carving: “Little Horny Man.”
And yes, it’s what you expect. LiveScience reports on the giant penis that’s redefining world history: The time frame during which humans first reached the […]
Dolphins are people too.
Or so the Belfast Telegraph says, with a report on scientists devising a document outlining dolphin rights: A small group of experts in philosophy, conservation […]
Flying squid. Yeah, that’s a relaxing concept.
Nature eases no one’s mind when the revered journal explains it’s actually more efficient for some squid fly than to swim: Squid of many species […]
Science Art: Amundsen Expedition Map of Antarctica, 1911-1912
Click to embiggen Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen did away with Terra Australis Incognito for good in December 1911. (It was more than a decade later […]