If a potato can power a clock…
…then a tree can power a forest-fire deterrent system. At least, so says Discover magazine and a group of MIT scientists who’ve started a “tree […]
SONG: Sleeping Cathedrals
SONG: “Sleeping Cathedrals”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “World’s biggest whale g…
Read moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
Read moreScience Art: Collops bipunctatus, U, Back, SD, Pennington County, 2013
This image of a Collops bipunctatus, a beetle from the Melyridae family, was taken by Sam Droege from flowers …
Read moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience 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 moreA Committee of Beehive Realtors?
Science Daily was recently buzzing about the decision-making strategies of bees: Scientists had known that honeybee scouts “waggle dance” to report on food. Seeley and […]
It falls everywhere.
Well, as the world markets plunge, something else has started falling. It’s snowing on Mars: iTwire reports: Canada’s York University professor Jim Whiteway, who is […]
Giving the cold shoulder? Just wash your hands of it.
SciAm warms my heart with a great interview about metaphor. Cognitive psychiatrist Chen-Bo Zhong of the University of Toronto is an expert in why certain […]
Science Art: Allosaurus Size Comparison
Click to embiggen T. rex gets all the credit, but Allosaurus – all the various species and sizes – was really the large fierce predator […]
New Dawn Fades. (Science Art: Sunrise above the Martian Arctic.)
Look at this: while listening to this. In the lifeless, frigid Martian arctic, the sun only sets at the end of summer, then rises, weakly, […]
Clever Crows Make Chimps Chumps.
Scientists in New Zealand have distressing news for those of us who enjoy a drumstick now and again. As reported in New Scientist, they’ve found […]
Sorry, Charlie.
I suppose this has been all over the British press by now, but the Church of England recently apologized to Charles Darwin: Scientific American: “The […]
SONG: (We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider
SONG: “(We Can Blame Peter Higgs) At the Collider” (To download:double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: CERN progress updates throughout 2008, as used […]
The Mummies of Lima.
This summer, archaeologists discovered three bodies that had been ritually preserved 1,300 years ago in what is now the capital city of Peru. PhysOrg describes […]
Hello, neighbor. (Science Art: First Picture of Likely Planet around Sun-like Star)
For the first time, astronomers have snapped a photo of a planet orbiting a star like our own Sun. That’s it. Not a recreation or […]
You can have any music you like, as long as it’s one of these six forms.
Because, New Scientist tells us, there are only six forms of music to have: In his new book, The World in Six Songs, cognitive psychologist […]
Glowing under the wires.
Here, this is science art you can try at home: Ordinary fluorescent lights + power lines = GLOW. Really. You can do it yourself. That […]
Give junk DNA a hand.
Because, New Scientist reports, it may have given us ours: When genetically engineered into mice, the human DNA seems to activate genes in the budding […]
Drive my car.
So. Wired tells us it’s true – the roar of the sportscar kinda turns us on: To test the theory that high-performance cars get people […]