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 […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreHello, 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 […]
Space bears, more like.
New Scientist has joined the chorus of publications huddling around the cutest space invaders ever. Swedish researchers have just proved that tiny creatures called tardigrades, […]
Science Art: “Phases of the Moon” 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.
Science Art: Swift Naked Eye Gamma Burst
Click to embiggen Image Credit: NASA/Swift/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith and John Jones. On Mar 16, Earth’s most sophisticated telescopes were briefly blinded by a flash of […]
Uninterruptable Zen.
If you’re one of those people who straddle the gulf between science and creativity (and I think, deep down, most people are, cf. 43 folders)… […]
LHC fires beam.
And we all just shifted back in time by 3.214 seconds. Did you feel that?
Insomnia, meet inflammation.
I’ve sort of known this was true for years, but now ScienceDaily confirms it: lack of sleep has a direct correlation with inflammation in the […]
This Island Arctic.
For the first time in human history, the SolveClimate blog reports, it’s possible to circumnavigate the Arctic. Normally, this is a permanently frozen sea – […]
Fly like a bumblebee.
Scientists, as the Telegraph points out, have long been mystified by the bumblebee. It’s short and fat with stubby wings that, mathematically speaking, should never […]
Science Art: The moon seen from above Cuba, 2-24-2005
Click to embiggen. Image from "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" at the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center.