Black South African digger becomes paleontology star
NPR shared the story of Lazarus Kgasi, who started as a laborer but fell in love with the science — and is now helping shape […]
Science 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 moreScience Art: Histologist Microscope, 1900
An illustration of an elegant optical device from Science Gossip magazine (a publication which I discovered via…
Read moreScience Art: Rudimentary Simulator, 1963.
This is Figure 3 from “Man-Machine System Simulation for Flight Vehicles” by Steven Belsley, an article which w…
Read moreScience 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 …
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Science Art: Cathode Ray Tubes, 1974
An image from an ad from the Jan/Feb 1974 issue of the Journal for the Society for Informational Display. The edition is pretty light on […]
Snakes can fast because they got rid of a hormone.
Science reports on a discovery researchers are putting up there with GLP-1 anti-obesity drugs. In this case, snakes can survive long, and foodless, periods of […]
Teenage cigarettes lead to grown-up opioid trouble.
A University of Pennsylvania grad researcher has found that teenagers who smoke tobacco are at higher risk for addiction to morphine, heroin, or fentanyl, because […]
Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it […]
Age-blocking injection rebuilds knee cartilage.
Sci Tech Daily investigates a new treatment for arthritis that can not just stop joint damage but actually reverse it by blocking chemicals associated with […]
Long life really can come down to good ancestors.
Well, good at living a long time, at least. Nature reports on a study that finds about 55 percent of the factors that grant a […]
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: 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 […]