Science Art: The Magnificent Sombrero Galaxy
Click for larger image This is a visible-light image of M-104, the Sombrero Galaxy, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. If our eyes were sharp […]
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 moreIs it the munchies?
Medicinenet has a real downer of a report, dude. Stoners are more likely to contract severe gum disease: After controlling for other risk factors for […]
Light from Salmon what???
Endgadget is freaking out over a joint University of Cincinnati/Air Force breakthrough creating an environmentally friendly light source, called BioLEDs, out of salmon sperm: The […]
15 Tiny Pictures.
The Guardian is featuring an incredible slideshow of the Wellcome Image Awards 2008. Go, look, be awed.
Catepillars 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 […]