Glowing petunias.
NPR greets springtime with flowers that show their brightest color (a fluorescent green) after the sun goes down, thanks to genetic modification that makes these […]
Science Art: Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche, 2026
From the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio:
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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…
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Science Art: Amoeba. Actinophrys. by Philip Henry Gosse.
This is a scientific illustration done as a paper collage; that is, Philip Gosse took a sheet of paper, painted it as black as space, […]
Hyper-sexual zombie cicadas… on speed.
That’s how the CBS headline starts, and I can only improve upon it by adding the drugs in the interest of accuracy. The story is […]
Spoofed GPS signals affect 1,600 jets.
Interesting Engineering reports on antisocial behavior on the part of Russia, which seems to be responsible for jamming the GPS systems of 1,600 jet planes […]
Science Art: Pianta di Roma, by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, 1758.
It’s a map. An old map of an even older city. This is Piranesi’s map of ancient Rome (“and Forma Urbis”) from Le Antichità Romane, […]
“An archive of ancient human brains.”
Science Daily has research from University of Oxford archaeologists that is potentially upending a long-standing belief about digging up our long-ago ancestors. After looking through […]
Does tweeting research help?
Nature, always hoping to increase the reach of researchers, has a study that shows using the platform formerly known as Twitter to share research will […]
Tardigrade proteins can slow aging in humans.
Science Daily reminds us again of the charms of the humble, unkillable water bear, the tardigrade, a creature that can withstand nearly anything and just […]
Science Art: Four Phymata species from “Notas Sobre Phymatidae Neotropicales II,” October 1951.
An illustration of four ambush bugs from Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina, found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Or parts of ambush bugs. At […]
SONG: Great Big Love
SONG: “Great Big Love”. (available as .ogg here) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on The Guardian, 28 Feb 2024, “Humpback sex photographed for first time – […]
Baby dragons commute out of their caves.
The New York Times reports on olms — blind, pale, cave-dwelling salamanders once believed to be baby dragons — regularly traveling up to the surface […]
Science Art: HURRICANE FRAN – NARA – 17393787, by NASA.
Pictures of a storm from space. Big hurricanes are big! Fran was a Category 3 major hurricane – so a big storm, but far from […]
Ancient viruses gave us our brains.
“Language is a virus,” said William S. Burroughs. Now, Science Daily reports that researchers at Altos Labs-Cambridge Institute of Science have found that intelligence itself […]
Science Art: Relative Position of Observer and Observed in Direct Ophthalmoscopy, Arthur W. Head, 1917.
You gotta get right up in there if you really want to see what’s going on in those eyes. This is an illustration from a […]
Milking the amphibian
NPR has a story about a caecilian. Not Sicilian, but South American, these are to salamanders what glass snakes are to lizards: a legless version […]