Unexpected dinosaurs.
Despite being dead for, oh, 65 million years or so, dinosaurs still turn up in the darnedest places. Mainly museums, of course, but even there, […]
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 moreAnother dolphin nears extinction.
That’s the not-terribly cheerful news from Nature on the vaquita (Phocoena sinus), a porpoise from Mexico’s Pacific coast: In 1999, researchers estimated there were 567 […]
Science Art: Fächertextur
Polarization-microscope image of C-Phase liquid crystal, taken by Wikimedia Commons user "Minutemen."
Samuel Hoffman plays Big Band… on the Theremin
BECAUSE YOU ASKED FOR IT… Big band theremin. So soothing. So Golden Age of Radio. So heady with nostalgia and ether.
Gnarls Barkley on the Moog Etherwave Theremin.
I hope you’re enjoying your Thanksgiving, American readers. From the description of the video on YouTube: The main theremin was passed through iZotope Trash, an […]
Dvorak on the Matryomin.
In America, the Thanksgiving holiday starts today (more or less). To celebrate, The Guild of Scientific Troubadours will be reveling in the gorgeous sounds of […]
Surfer creates Theory of Everything.
If Einstein was around today, he’d probably surf, too. There’s a piece in the Telegraph (based, apparently, on a New Scientist clip) about Dr. A. […]
Roll out the solar!
Popular Science has named the nanosolar powersheet the “Best of What’s New 2007,” and for good reason. Instead of using big glass frames to generate […]
Jules Verne: Bleak Futurist
People nowadays look at Jules Verne as one of the forefathers of science fiction, anticipating amazing technological developments like swift, giant submarines and capsules landing […]
Science Art: Achelousaurus by Mariana Ruiz
A frilled dinosaur found in Montana, as imagined by science illustrator Mariana Ruiz Villarreal.
China’s electric bicycle problem
Sometimes, you just can’t win. You’d expect a country that’s embracing electric bicycles as an alternative to cars to be lauded as an environmental savior. […]
Fighting dirty against germs
Microbiologists have come up with a dirty new weapon in the war on MRSA, according to reports in Scientific American and Science News. The flesh-eating […]
AIDS: Around longer than you’d think.
Science News recently had a report on Michael Worobey’s work tracking AIDS. The common conception of this disease is that it struck America in the […]
And after the charge gives out, you make martinis.
The Interesting Thing of the Day blog presents an interesting solution to a problem that’s deeper than most people realize. The problem is all the […]
Giggle-bot is FRIEND!
Yep, scientists at UC San Diego seem to have found a way around the uncanny valley problem (the more “human” a robot, the creepier it […]