15 Tiny Pictures.
The Guardian is featuring an incredible slideshow of the Wellcome Image Awards 2008. Go, look, be awed.
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 moreCatepillars Remember.
More poetry from New Scientist, reporting on Georgetown University research into the memory of butterflies: Seventy-eight percent of the caterpillars that were shocked directly after […]
It’s Full of Holes.
Discover reports on a new bicycle frame that’s stronger than titanium, steel, carbon composites or aluminum. It’s lighter, too – because it’s full of holes: […]
Science Art: SEM Leaf (1875x)
A leaf, with something on it, as seen at nearly 2,000 times normal size through a scanning electron microscope (SEM). There are more SEM images […]
Eat Whale?
The Reuters Environment Desk had a doozy of a story recently on how Norwegian lobbyists want us to eat whale to save the planet: The […]
East/West Brain Differences.
M.I.T. researchers, cited in the Boston Globe, have used brain scanners and simple tasks to map out neurological differences between Westerners and East Asians: In […]
Stoned Moses.
Ha’aretz reports on a rather unusual theory coming out of Hebrew University – that Moses was tripping his way down Mt. Sinai: “And all the […]
From Weight Into Light.
PhysOrg brightens our day with a fun new invention that’s actually rather old-fashioned. It’s a gravity-powered lamp. The LED lamp, named Gravia, is an acrylic […]
Science Art: Nebalia bipes
A deep-water crustacean, captured on film by Flemish marine biologist Lycaon.
Chimps are Wired for Words.
ScienceDaily reports on new findings from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, who say that chimpanzee brains are really close to human brains as far […]
Wave-powered boat sets sail.
PopSci takes to the sea with Japanese sailor Ken-ichi Horie, 69, who has harnessed wave power to make his new ship go: At the heart […]
Nicknamed “The Monster.”
BBC News is raving about the discovery of the largest marine reptile ever to swim on Earth – a creature powerful enough to snap a […]
Red Spot Mystery
Discovery assures us that space contines to be utterly inexplicable – at least as far as that famous, bizarre, permanent hurricane on the King of […]
Science Art: Anatomy of Horse
A 15th century AD Egyptian diagram kept by the University Library in Istanbul, showing what’s inside a horse.
SONG: Flip the Switch.
SONG: “Flip the Switch” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “Deep brain stimulation may help Alzheimer patient’s memories”, Telegraph.co.uk, 31 January 2008, […]