Glowing Proteins; Less-Than-Glowing Prospects?
Recently, Dr. Roger Tsien earned a Nobel prize for his work in creating a stunning array of colorful, glowing proteins. Not only are they, like, […]
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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1 Arm
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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 moreBig Stick.
Entolomologists working in Borneo have found what they believe to be world’s longest insect: PhysOrg writes: The specimen was found by a local villager and […]
Satellite Discovers Pyramid at Nazca.
You may have caught this on MSNBC, but Italian researchers studying imagery from the Quickbird satellite discovered a 97,000-square-foot pyramid on the banks of Peru’s […]
Science Art: Aurochs, Webster’s New International
I’m quite fond of the aurochs. As the feared onager was to the domestic donkey, so the aurochs to domestic cattle. Onagers gave their name […]
QuarkDance!
At last! A peppy, eternal polka that illustrates the movements of subatomic particles! Found in this fun Hey, Poindexter! interview, which also includes the following […]
Bonobos: NOT Hippies.
For a while in the 1990s, it seemed like everybody wanted to be a pygmy chimp. A bonobono. All bonobos did, they said, was hang […]
Depression Meets the Magnet Cure.
WebMD reports on the first clinical application for using really big magnets to zap depressed people’s brain waves: The clearance comes nearly two years after […]
Mad Scientists For Obama
Far be it from this site to endorse a candidate for the American presidential election… …but who would Dr. Frankenstein vote for? As inspired by […]
Tracing the Evolution of Religion
BBC News recently covered a project at the intersection of theology and computer science, in which experts with scanners are digitizing and reassembling the world’s […]
Investigating the Roots of Traditional African Medicine.
A new research center is delving into a rich, as-yet-untapped reservoir of African medical knowledge, seeking new treatments for AIDS and other diseases by hoping, […]
Science Art: Explorer I
Click to embiggen A diagram. An iconic diagram. This is America’s answer to Sputnik, the Explorer I satellite, launched aboard the Jupiter C rocket on […]
The Light-Net.
Some bright scientists in Boston (with a little help from the government) are turning energy-efficient lights into flickering wireless repeaters: Gizmodo: The technology will be […]
Musicians have ambidextrous brains.
A new Vanderbilt University study demonstrates why learning an instrument and, like, rocking out can make your brain better – because musicians use both sides […]
Terror warnings undermine conservative candidates.
PhysOrg enters the presidential fray with a new UC Berkeley study that finds playing the terror card can backfire on political conservatives: …[A] new national […]
Columbia Astronaut’s Diary Recovered
AP is carrying a poignant story about Israel’s first astronaut, whose diary survived the Columbia’s explosion over Palestine, Texas: The U.S. space agency returned the […]