Science Art: “Anatomical Man,” Les Très Riches Heures by Duc de Berry
Human anatomy explained as an allegory for astrology, or vice versa. From the collection of the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
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 King of Paper Airplanes.
New Scientist reports on Japanese space scientists creating origami that’s out of this world: The origami space plane will be a similar design, Suzuki says, […]
Elephants evolve smaller tusks.
The Telegraph reports on the strange findings of Iain Douglas Hamilton and his colleagues, who appear to have discovered evidence that elephants are evolving smaller […]
SONG: You’ve Got Power
SONG: “You’ve Got Power” (To download: right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “PopSci’s Best of What’s New 2007: Innovators”, Popular Science, December 2007, as […]
That stuff you’re breathing.
Nature discusses new findings about how we’ll all get superpowers, like heat vision and wings, just by breathing! Well, what they really said was that […]
It flowers itself to death
New Scientist reports on a frankly bizarre palm tree just discovered by a family picnicking in Madagascar: “It’s a species that is so significant from […]
Science Art: Aeshna cyanea – head close-up
A common dragonfly as seen in an uncommon way by Wikimedia Commons user "Aka."
Drug for cold turkey.
The Journal of Ethnopharmacology has a survey of a subculture that could turn addiction therapy on its ear – an informal alliance of people using […]
Next step: the monkey cyborg revolution!
The New York Times unveils the creation of the world’s first globally activated monkey-guided robots: On Thursday, an alert and ready-to-work Idoya stepped onto her […]
It’s an odd universe.
That’s right. AP is reporting on an announcement from the American Astronomical Society that the universe is more violent and awe-inspiring than previously thought: The […]
You’re not real
Dude. What if, like… …like, the WHOLE UNIVERSE was just… …like, made up, maaan? Like it was all VIRTUAL REALITY, man? (asks the latest New […]
Turn the Brain Back On
ScienceDaily has news from researchers in Los Angeles who found that a single injection with a drug that’s already used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and […]
Science Art: Pediastrum boryanum
This is an Environmental Protection Agency photograph from the Great Lakes Image Collection, showing green algae up close. Phytoplankton like this makes up the base […]
The Super-Soaker Engine
Popular Mechanics sheds light on an inventor’s all-new approach to getting power from the sun: The Atlanta-based independent inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun […]
Because electrocution gets boring after a while…
…you need a Taser with a built-in mp3 player. No, I’m not making that up. PhysOrg writes up the new gizmo that lets you rock […]