Science Art: Earth and Moon as Seen from Mars
Click to embiggen This is a photo of Earth and the moon taken on October 3, 2007, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) […]
Science Art: What can make any tape recorder sound a little more like an Ampex?, 1963.
This is an ad for Ampex tape from the August 1963 edition of Electronics Australia, a magazine (which I found o…
Read moreScience Art: Cygnus region in emission lines, 2025
This is a photo of space with a bit of color amplification so we can tell what we’re looking at. Nebulas on the…
Read moreScience Art: Heart apical two-chamber view myocardial regions, by Patrick Lynch
This is an illustration of a particular perspective in a cardiac echocardiogram. An “apical view” is one of the…
Read moreSONG: 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 moreThe Olympic Computer.
The New York Times shares an interesting theory about the Antikythera Mechanism, the ancient clockwork computer recovered from the Mediterranean. Instead of being some kind […]
Levitate me.
Step back, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The Telegraph reports on a new a levitation machine: Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Thomas Philbin, from the University of […]
Watch Facebook crumble….
From the TECH MEANS WASTING TIME Desk: As you all probably know by now, Scrabulous is down. You probably also know it’s due to a […]
Turning off old age.
Stanford researchers have discovered something strange about microscopic worms, ScientificBlogging reports. These nematodes have specific genes that regulate the aging process: The researchers examined the […]
Zapping the blues.
PhysOrg reports on a new treatment that aims at eliminating depression by directly stimulating the brain: DBS [Deep Brain Stimulation] uses high-frequency electrical stimulation targeted […]
Science Art: “Ericsson Taxen ritn,” Nordisk familjebok
An early telephone schematic found in a very special category on Wikimedia Commons.
“Something big smacked into Mars…”
“…and stripped half the crust off the planet.” That’s a new theory about the Red Planet reported in Science News and elsewhere. The problem: The […]
SONG: We Climb.
SONG: “We Climb.” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Fossil fills out water-land leap”, BBC News, 25 Jun 2008, as used […]
The Totality of the Universe (nutshell version).
I’m quite impressed by “Cosmology in 10 Minutes” by Danielle Fong, her attempt to explain why scientists believe what they do about how this all […]
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Twitch of a (bionic) whisker.
New Scientist senses the tiniest air currents by a synthetic whisker: The design consists of an artificial hair deposited on a silicon substrate and connected […]
Science Art: Bâtonnets
Wikipedia Commons user "Minutemen" took this polarization-microscope image of liquid crystal.
Robot chef!
New Scientist is living in The Jetsons: “If you want to interpret and understand everyday activities using vision data, it’s very complicated, error-prone, and resource […]