Hurricane from orbit.
Hurricane Igor, from the International Space Station. [via]
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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1 Arm
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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 moreThe Michigan extinction event.
It’s happening now, the CS Monitor writes. The entire Lake Michigan ecosystem is collapsing: The quagga [mussel] is found in all of the Great Lakes; […]
Science Art: Robert Roy (Fig. 14) Heredity of Albinism
Click to embiggen Found in VintagePrintable.com’s Life Science gallery.
Humpbacked weirdosaur.
There’s a great piece up at ScienceBlogs demonstrating how paleontology (and, even better, paleontological art) really works. It’s Darren Naish enthusing about a particularly strange-looking […]
Conching dolphins.
New Scientist tells the story of dolphins using tools to hunt: Simon Allen, a behavioural ecologist at Murdoch University in Perth, Australia, was out on […]
Medical diamonds.
Discovery News digs deep for a story on things diamonds can do that are more than skin deep: Virtually any kind of protein or chemical […]
Charles Darwin: Terraformer
The BBC exposes a secret experiment by the man who brought us evolution: an island that Darwin turned into an artificial ecosystem: Ascension was an […]
Science Art: Two-Dimensional Low-Turbulence Tunnel
Click to embiggen NASA has a new collection on Flickr Commons. It’s pretty awesome. So is this wind tunnel, also known as the “ice tunnel” […]
Frog skin super-drugs…
…will beat those super-bugs. Science Daily reveals a brand new source for potent antibiotics: The scientists are currently screening skin secretions from more than 6,000 […]
What do you have to say?
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – […]
Lungless, projectile-tongued salamander discovered.
And it’s up to the Guardian to tell me about the latest critter found in Appalachia: Its jaw and tooth structure suggest that it uses […]
Look who’s running the asylum.
And, in fact, the whole discipline of psychology. National Post exposes the sad truth that industrialized, post-Enlightenment Westerners are weird: The article, titled “The weirdest […]
Homegrown eyes.
Medical Daily is dishing up a bright new recipe for making biological corneas from scratch: More than a decade ago, Dr. Griffith and her colleagues […]
Science Art: Repeating circle with two telescopes, Caroline Hassler, 1820
Click to embiggen Image of Victorian-era coastal survey equipment found in the NOAA Photo Library. The equipment belonged to the artist’s grandfather, a Swiss immigrant […]
Dry water.
No, not ice, but, as the Telegraph explains it, a form of water that just isn’t wet: Each particle of dry water contains a water […]