A window of skin
New Scientist sees through me like glass. In fact, my skin could be better than glass: In 2007, Allard Mosk and colleagues at Twente University […]
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 moreFear remembers.
Next time you’re stuck trying to get Boyle’s Law or some cute person’s email into your memory, think of something awful. That’s MSNBC’s solution, based […]
Plastic isn’t sexy.
Not just looking at – being around it. Science Daily has the skinny on how BPA is making male mice less attractive to females: The […]
Google vs. Nonsense
In my day job, I’m not a scientist – I’m a writer. So it pleases me immensely to see this New York Times piece on […]
Evolution machine
Genetic engineers have, in the latest New Scientist, devised a device that (deviously) speeds up the process of evolution: For instance, a yeast engineered to […]
Science Art: Hubble Confirms Existence of Massive Black Hole at Heart of Active Galaxy, by Holland Ford, et al. (5/25/1994)
From the image’s archive.org page: A schematic diagram of velocity measurements of a rotating disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. […]
Uncut lovers.
That’s Denmark for you. The International Journal of Epidemiology published an article from Danish researchers who found circumcision isn’t all that great in the sack: […]
SONG: “Humidity”
SONG: “Humidity.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on Star Found Shooting Water “Bullets”, National Geographic, 13 June 2011, as […]
Test-tube steak will save Earth.
PhysOrg hops on the in-vitro meat bandwagon with a study that concludes lab-grown meat will lower greenhouse gas emissions by 96 percent: The analysis, carried […]
Robot astronauts.
I suppose automation just made the Space Shuttle obsolete (or, well, something like that). MSNBC reports that the latest supply ship to the ISS is […]
A dying flash.
CSM takes a somber look at a star essentially giving a final wave as it’s swallowed by a black hole: Using Swift observations and others […]
Science Art: Farnsworth–Hirsch Fusor (U.S. Patent 3,386,883)
The innards of a nuclear reactor, from a relatively recent patent application. That is, 1966. By inventor Philo T. Farnsworth. It’s a fusor, which is […]
Echoes of the magma oceans of Io
Wired gets all hot about some of our solar system’s OTHER moons – specifically, the strange magnetism of the magma oceans of Io: The magma […]
Star sprinklers.
Just in time for summer, National Geographic lets us know that someone left the sprinklers on way up there: The discovery suggests that protostars may […]
Mother cow.
It must be strange to work in a facility like the ones Sky News just reported on – the places where genetically modified cows produce […]