Their Spock probably has a beard, too.
Have you ever really looked at the logo for China’s space agency? Seem familiar? Yes, you have seen it before.
Science Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSpirit in the sand.
The Mars Rover Spirit could use a couple two-by-fours, the LA Times reports, because its wheels are spinning in place… a very faraway place: Over […]
Science Art: Mars & Beyond, directed by Ward Kimball, 1957
What might life on Mars be like? That’s the question Disney was asking TV viewers in 1957. This has to be seen to be believed…. […]
Music opens your heart. No, really.
CNN recently covered some fun physiological research from the University of Maryland that showed that music – music you like – really is good for […]
Imaginary poisons.
New Scientist examines the harmful health effects of the power of negative thinking: The placebo effect has an evil twin: the nocebo effect, in which […]
Food wrapper plastics are in our blood.
Something’s gotten in The Charleston Gazette’s blood – and ours, too. You want to know the future? One word. Plastics: Around the world, scientists are […]
RIP, Eilene Galloway.
You should know who she is. She made NASA.
THEM! (Global Warming Edition)
Just because we’ve swapped climate change for nuclear apocalypse in our end-of-the-world imaginings, that doesn’t mean we have to give up our terror of giant […]
Science Art: Artist’s View of Extrasolar Planet HR 8799b by NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScl)
Click to embiggen vastly You can read the full story on Hubblesite.org; the short version – Hubble found this planet in 1998, but nobody realized […]
File under: Songs, non-scientific. (Not quite remixing Pocket’s “Sampo”)
You may or may not have heard about Pocket’s 2009 Singles Project, which involves Pocket remixing original songs from a list of indie all-stars (including […]
Hobbit feet.
The New York Times has nothing better to do than look at hobbit feet: The new anatomical evidence, being reported Thursday in the journal Nature, […]
Breathe out.
The MIT Technology Review (and other sources) have reported on a new technique that Canadian doctors devised for preparing lungs for transplants – or repairing […]
Mmmm. Neurology. Oh, yeah.
Nature Neuroscience (via the BBC) lets researchers push all the right buttons after they’ve discovered brave new ways to make us feel good: A team, […]
Cosmic dacquiri.
The Guardian explains an awful lot about how things have gotten so out of hand for so very, very long by revealing proof that we’re […]