Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.
Science Adviser reports on the discovery (or rediscovery) of a fossil that is not just a new species, not just a new class, order, nor […]
Science Art: Astrapia Splendidissima, 1895
This is the first illustration in the article “A New Bird of Paradise” by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, published…
Read moreScience Art: Ever See This Before?, 1966.
This is an actual image of a cathode-ray tube, “the furthest advance yet made in man/ machine interface,” used …
Read moreScience Art: Sunrise - Philippine Sea, 2017
This is an image from the “Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth” gallery, maintained by the Earth Science …
Read moreScience Art: Égouts de Paris, by Jules Ferat.
There’s a subtitle here that Google Translate renders as “Sewer cleaning wagon. (System of Chief Engineer Mr. B…
Read moreScience Art: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, by David K. Stone.
I found the image in the San Diego Air & Space Museum’s “Aerophilately Special Collection” on Flickr; this is a…
Read moreSONG: Alone
SONG: “Alone”. (OGG version here.)
ARTIST: grant.
SOURCE: Based on “What Killed the Neanderthals? A Lack …
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Science Art: Don’t wait – 70% are doomed, c. 1936
This is a poster from the WPA urging people to save their own lives … by getting tested for a sexually transmitted disease. The geometry […]
SONG: Social Prosthetic
SONG: “Social Prosthetic”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Cultivate Famous Scientists?”, Scientific American, 20 Jan 2026, as used […]
Why did Jeffrey Epstein “collect” so many scientists?
Scientific American has a rather deeply researched piece on something that feels like it’s about politics at first, since it’s following the donations of a […]
Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes, etc., 1615.
This is a light experiment from the 1600s, which I found in the British Library archive over yonder. The book, Les raisons des forces &c […]
Wearing octopus camouflage
Nature reports on materials engineers stealing the secrets of octopus skin to create substances that can change color and texture on demand: Very small sub-micrometre […]
Robots the size of microbes.
Science recently covered some breakthroughs in building robots that measure less than a millimeter square, but can sense surroundings, carry out commands, make calculations, and […]
Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here. I can only […]
Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.
Science Daily reports on pilot whales and orcas in the Caribbean which DNA analysis has revealed are carrying “invisible” viruses we’ve never detected before: The […]
Why is your brain so tired?
Nature reports on new findings about the roots of mental fatigue — which has implications not just for generally feeling worn out, but also for […]
Pink Power Ranger hacker breaks white power websites.
CyberNews reports on Martha Root, a pseudonymous hacker who single-handedly infiltrated and shut down a series of websites dedicated to white power: The leak affects […]
Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868
Fifty-two breeds of chickens! This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: […]
Deer pee glows during mating season
Science ran a festive piece of research during the longest nights of winter, with biologists who’ve found that male white-tailed deer mark their territory during […]
Science Art: Diagram of the Comparative Sizes of the Planets, 1895
This is one of the 10 illustrations by Dan Beard for John Jacob Aster’s book A Journey In Other Worlds. Well, actually it’s the one […]
Reversing Alzheimer’s? In mice at least….
Science Daily shared news from University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center about mice trials that demonstrate memories actually being restored as brain energy levels are brought […]