Science Art: Fresh Tiger Stripes on Saturn’s Enceladus, by Cassini.
Click to embiggen vastly This is Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons that might harbor life. That nearly geometric blue pattern on its surface is called […]
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…
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SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (penitential Mountain Goats cover)
SONG: “Hast Thou Considered the Tetrapod?” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally by The Mountain Goats. SOURCE: This is a penitential […]
Autotune explained.
Normally I wouldn’t encourage this sort of thing, but NOVA has an interesting feature explaining how Autotune works. On July 6, they’ll be posting answers […]
I see sounds.
ScientificBlogging.com has a story that I’d suspect was an April Fools if this wasn’t the middle of summer. Supposedly, like our intelligent cousins to the […]
Feather in your tank.
The Daily Green recently revealed an alternative fuel scheme that may be much better than bird-brained: Finding novel uses for chicken feathers is a pet […]
Science Art: 3D movie taken by the Terrain Camera (TC) of KAGUYA (SELENE) during its maneuvered falling to the Moon.), Japanese Space Agency JAXA.
(Larger version here.) This is the Japanese lunar probe Kayuga (Selene) crashing into the Moon. More specifically, this is a 3D rendering of data sent […]
SONG: This is the Sound.
SONG: “This is the Sound” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Acoustic Black Hole Created in Bose-Einstein Condensate”, Technology Review, 10 […]
Guild Salute: MASSIVE Science Songs.
How did I only find out about this amazing, ambitious site now? It’s the Math And Science Song Information, Viewable Everywhere (MASSIVE) database, affiliated with […]
Global Warming Trivia – from the SEA!
The Scientists and Engineers for America have a fun trivia question today: Which gas of the following is the most important greenhouse gas but will […]
Deadly Roundup
Scientific American confirms my suspicions about my neighbors and their well-manicured, weedless yards. All that stuff they’re spraying? Yeah, it’ll kill you: One label requirement […]
Pay attention to your daydreaming.
There’s been a lot of attention paid to paying attention lately – and how we really need to not do that all the time. Wall […]
Song delay….
Yes, it’s the 23rd. There should be a new song here. There isn’t. You, oh faithful readers, will have a scientific song rather soon. And […]
Crunchasaurus?
PhysOrg ventures into the vast Gobi Desert to reveal a historical find – the fossilized remains of the first confirmed nut-eating dinosaur: Larger, more numerous […]
Science Art: Sunrise Over Saturn and its Rings, W00018160.jpg, 2006
Click to embiggen slightly On September 15, 2006, the Cassini Space Probe had its historic rendezvous with Saturn, giving us – five days later – […]
Music boosts brains.
Scientific American casts a cold eye on music makers, and clinically reveals that yes, music really matters: To record brain stem responses, the researchers placed […]