Science Art: Jupiter’s Rings
Click to embiggen. Photo by: the National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy/National Science Foundation, as well as Cornell astronomers J. Burns […]
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 moreMen meet obsolescence.
Yep. The Environmental Graffiti blog (among other sources) is pointing out that, biologicially speaking, the testicle is on the way to joining the appendix. Men […]
Blue-eyed babies.
Science Daily reveals that blue-eyed people really are special – they’re all related to each other: New research shows that people with blue eyes have […]
Memory on tap.
The Daily Telegraph has a fascinating story about an accidental neurological discovery. While trying to “switch off” an obese man’s desire to overeat, neurologists using […]
It’s wrong to wish on space hardware.
Nature makes me nostalgic for the 70s, when a young boy’s fancy was caught by tales of Skylab hurtling down to Earth with immense destructive […]
Engineers of Jihad?
EETimes.com, the online news magazine for electrical engineers, recently published a bizarre little musing in the form of a study linking electrical engineering aptitude with […]
Science Art: Schlieren texture
Schlieren texture of a liquid crystal nematic phase. What does that mean? This page will help explain.
Supersize Me.
Science Daily reports on researchers at the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig who discovered that McDonald’s makes us supermen: The researchers fed laboratory mice one […]
Gold atoms
In case you were wondering, gold atoms are cool.
Skin Rhythms.
New Scientist stops the clock with timely news about skin. Apparently, skin is pretty deep – it’s somehow tied to the brain as part of […]
Night Lights Are Killing Us?
Man, what, are teddy bears next? The Lancet reports on a survey of studies that, combined, seem to show that night lights are causing cancer […]
Health Magnet.
LiveScience notices something odd that’ll have some hard-minded skeptics practicing their eyebrow raises. Medical magnets – one of the old staples of alternative medicine pseudoscience, […]
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.
The 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 […]