Science Art: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap, by Andrea Luck
Really, I guess the full title of this should be: Mars – Cloudy North Polar Cap – CNSA Tianwen-1. “CNSA” is the China National Space […]
Science Art: Mirounga leonina 01, by H. Zell
This is a southern elephant seal, the largest marine mammal that isn’t a whale. They’re about twice as weighty …
Read moreScience 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 more
The sacred stone axes hunted cosmic game
IFL Science looks back in time, studying handaxes made by Homo erectus from unlikely materials like crystals or fossils … which seem likely to have […]
Diagnosed by your contact lens
Science Adviser looks at medical advice given by an optometrist on a contact lens: When your optometrist asks you to look through a machine at […]
The Carroll Crater
Mashable is one of the outlets that reported on the naming of a newly identified lunar crater by the astronauts of the Artemis mission… one […]
Science Art: Earth-moon Relationship MSC, HOUSTON, TX
This is a line drawing of the Apollo mission’s lunar module reaching the Moon, staying a while, and then coming back home. It’s a few […]
France ditches Windows for Linux
Not the people; the country. Techcrunch reports on a European government switching operating systems to avoid relying on U.S. tech: Linux is an open source […]
Science Art: Chromista
An illustration from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service “Biological Illustration” collection of chromista, which is a proposed kingdom of life. As in animal, vegetable, […]
Hammerheads “thermal hustle” for better hunting
BBC’s Discover Wildlife reports on a shark study that finds some simple ways hammerhead sharks are shifting to cope with the warming seas from climate […]
New star tells oldest story, 12 billion years later
Mashable reports on a newly discovered star that can serve as a time capsule for the some of the earliest days of the universe, made […]
Science Art: Eyes of Epeira conica x30, 1884
A spider’s face seen at 30-times magnification, from the February 1884 issue of Science Gossip. This is illustrating a sort of study, or perhaps prose […]
Brains keep developing at every age.
Nature reports on the first atlas of brain development — a map of where and when new cells develop in human brains — and the […]
SONG: Birds Are Digging
SONG: “Birds Are Digging”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “How A Black Fossil Digger Became a Superstar in the Very White World […]
Cockroaches bond by eating each other’s wings.
NPR shares romance among the insects with research that shows at least one species of cockroach, Salganea taiwanensis, forms long-term pair-bonds. And, poetically, these cockroach […]
Science Art: OSIRIS-REx after SRC release, 2023
This is a still from an animation showing what a larger spaceship does after firing a small capsule toward Earth. The capsule is filled with […]
Palm-sized glass can store 2 million books’ worth of data
PhysOrg looks through a Microsoft Research Labs breakthrough called Silica that can use pulses of laser light to inscribe ordinary glass blocks so that they’ll […]