The Handy Uses of a Home Computer, 1970
In 1970, Life wanted us to know that home computers can be useful: Those pioneer families who have one, like the Theodore Rodmans of Ardmore, […]
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 moreIn the Spirit of Ham.
BBC reports on a Russia’s new generation of space monkeys being trained for Mars: “People and monkeys have approximately identical sensitivity to small and large […]
Cellphone Planet.
New York Times gives us a new (well, new-ish) perspective on cellular phones – as a revolutionary technology for eliminating global poverty.. or for making […]
The Boy-Crab Boogie.
New Scientist rocks like a crustacean with a new report on crab courtship dances: In the dense submarine thickets of seagrass that blue crabs (Callinectes […]
Science Art: A Gear Chain with a Mite Approaching
This is how small they’re making machines nowadays: Dwarfed by a spider mite. Lubricated by gases. Photo courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories, SUMMiTTM Technologies, www.mems.sandia.gov
The Creativity Disease.
New York Times profiles a bizarre ailment that has me wondering how one could contract it halfway. It’s a syndrome that causes uncontrolled creativity: In […]
Flat-faced Fish Fleet. Er, Family.
Scientific American introduces us to a whole new family of (rather cute) flat-faced fish: First photographed in January off Ambon Island, Indonesia, the critter has […]
As Matthew McConaughey said in Dazed and Confused….
New Scientist says old dudes like Charles Darwin really should be shacked up with younger women like Scarlett Johansen because of science. Humans, they say, […]
Grow Your Own Teeth.
Wired opens wide and spits out a story on a dental breakthrough. If you happen to have lost any of your teeth (ahem), you don’t […]
5th grader corrects Smithsonian Museum.
Yep, he might be an 11-year-old kid, but at least he was paying attention in class: Since it opened in 1981, millions of people have […]
Science Art: Red Giant V838 Monocerotis
Click to embiggen Photo by NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). You can read more about V838 Monocerotis exploding and swallowing nearby planets […]
Big Brains? So What.
Discover reviews a new book that proves Devo was right – big brains aren’t an evolutionary advantage. The book, called Big Brains, looks at the […]
Empathic Healing: Imaginary Massage for Phantom Limbs.
New Scientist reports on the discovery that amputees experiencing phantom limb pain – the unscratchable itch on a missing limb – can give themselves a […]
Algae Biodiesel in Production.
They’re squeezing oil from pond scum for real: The facility, located in Rio Hondo Texas, will produce an estimated 4.4 million gallons of algal oil […]
Doomsday Seed Vault Cooked and Eaten.
So much for planet Earth’s future. The Norwegian scientists behind the Svalbard Global Seed Vault – a facility described as “Noah’s Ark for Earth’s Agriculture” […]