Pink Iguana!
PopSci believes that pink iguanas are real. Because, as it turns out, pink iguanas are real! Even after the first pink iguana sighting came in […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Beebe's Bathysphäre, 1934
This is an image of William Beebe’s bathysphere, as placed on Wikimedia Commons by ETH Bibliothek. It was creat…
Read moreTrophy Heads of Nazca.
The same mysterious civilization that left us the lines and inspirational giant pyramids also left puzzling piles of human heads… and PhysOrg.com reports that the […]
Be Boring.
No! Say it ain’t so! The Overcoming Bias blog has this study from the Journal of Experimental Psychology that shows that interesting details interfere with […]
Science Art: Allosaurus, by Charles R. Knight
Click to embiggen Charles R. Knight is a scientific illustrator more people need to know about. A paleoartist, even. He brought dinosaurs (and other things) […]
Future: 2008 Energy Breakthroughs
The Memebox FutureBlogger rings in the New Year with the top 10 energy breakthroughs from 2008: There is still a lot we do not know […]
Science Art: Fennec, Webster’s New International
A desert-dwelling fox of North Africa. For Foxing Day. From Webster’s New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1911, G & C Miriam Co. Springfield, […]
Cell Phone Blood Scanner
Bet your iPhone can’t do this…. UCLA scientists have found a way to rig an ordinary cell phone, an LED, a light filter and some […]
Future By Colani.
Here, something pretty for your Yule: How Luigi Colani designed the future. A Colani-designed semi-trailer. From steam trains to flying boats. Spacecraft like ginger flowers […]
SONG: Isopods In My Aquarium.
SONG: “Isopods In My Aquarium” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Antarctica Has More Species than Galapagos”, LiveScience, 2 Dec 2008, […]
Smart Soldiers Die First.
Sounds grim, but New Scientist says it’s true. The more intelligent soldiers were the most likely to die in combat: The unprecedented demands of the […]
Science Art: Nicotiana alata upper leaf surface, showing tricomes and stomates.
Click to embiggen vastly This Lovecraftian landscape is jasmine tobacco. Not waving, photosynthesizing. From Louisa Howard at the Dartmouth Electron Microscope Facility.
Electric Plonk.
New Scientist gives us a recipe for converting cheap wine to the good stuff: It is backed by a decade of research, the results have […]
Flying Lasers.
We’re one step closer to living in a Flash Gordon serial, New Scientist reports, as engineers prepare to unleash a brilliant barrage of airborne death […]
A 2,000-Year-Old Brain
Archaeologists found a surprise inside the severed skull of a man who lived in Britain before the Romans came. As PhysOrg reports, it had Britain’s […]
Herpes and Alzheimer’s
Science Daily reveals the role the plucky, pesky herpes virus plays in the dreadful progress of Alzheimer’s disease – and how a cold sore cure […]