Science Art: Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp..
Click to embiggen. This is what plasma looks like – gas that has been zapped hard enough that it’s now an electrical conductor. Thomas Crooke […]
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 moreAnthrax attacks: Still unsolved.
This is science I take a personal interest in, as someone involved in this stuff. Dr. Bruce Ivins, after being named a “person of interest” […]
My Bionic Eye.
BBC News tells the story of a blind man whose life has been changed by his bionic eye: Ron, who has not revealed his surname, […]
Deadly dark comets will kill us all.
Mmmmaybe. At least, that’s what the Telegraph is saying. They’ve talked to astronomers and are now raising the alarm (and our stress levels) with thoughts […]
Stingray, I can… whoah.
The British press has been all over this, but a fisherman (and biologist) landed a record-sized stingray in Thailand: Guardian: A British angler – with […]
Science Art: “Three Kinds of Ears” The New Students Reference Work
From The New Students Reference Work (1914), edited by Chandler B. Beach, associate editor Frank Morton McMurry. Scanned by Wikimedia Commons user LA2.
Chemistry crafts: crystals!
This isn’t actually a discovery. It’s something you can do at home. All you need is bismuth, a pot and a stove and you can […]
Barreleye, I can see inside your head.
If they could do this with cats, a million TV watchers would pay $1,000 each. MSNBC reports on a fish with a see-through head: The […]
Waterproof sand brings promise of new life.
PhysOrg, ready for a day on the beach, reports that nanotech engineers have created waterproof sand. They expect to use it to make the world’s […]
SONG: Mama Never Taught Me
SONG: “Mama Never Taught Me” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Can experiences be passed on to offspring? “, New Scientist, […]
Relax. We’ll clean those memories right out.
WebMD, usually a reassuring site filled with comforting medical knowledge, shares the recent finding that a common blood pressure drug is not actually erasing our […]
Science Art: Exploration Imagery: S88-29653, the Project Pathfinder Autonomous Lander
Click to embiggen vastly This was what space was going to be in 1988. All acrylic paints and spindly legs. You can read more about […]
Teach ’em young. If not earlier.
New Scientist educates us about a new study suggesting that pregnant moms’ mental workouts can affect their unborn kids’ brains: Larry Feig at Tufts University […]
Green up your office, green out your lungs.
Pogue’s Posts‘ recent look at the latest TED talks underlines one particular presentation that seems pretty interesting. It’s by a fellow named Kamal Meattle who’s […]
You’re made of cotton candy.
Or at least you can be, if MSNBC and the Soft Matter journal are to be believed. They’re publishing research that shows how cotton candy […]