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, […]
Science Art: Power of RCA Electron Microscope, May 1955
These are diatoms, I think, seen by two different microscopes.
As the caption from Popular Electronics says…
Read moreScience Art: Red Pepper, 1910.
Red pepper (Cayenne pepper) will cure almost any case of la grippe within 24 hours, or so they say. At least no…
Read moreScience Art: Figs. 1315-1333 (Various rotary piston engines), 1890.
This is a page of figures from (deep breath) The engineer’s sketch-book of mechanical movements, devices, appli…
Read moreScience 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…
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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 […]
Life that can survive a full-on asteroid impact.
Mashable discusses the discovery at Johns Hopkins of microbes that are hardy enough to have traveled across the vacuum of space and then survived the […]
Science Art: Stand-Pipe, Boston, 1882
A hydrological edifice. As explained in A practical treatise on hydraulic and water-supply engineering: relating to the hydrology, hydrodynamics, and practical construction of water works, […]
Our brains run on 20 watts of power.
Are we bright, or really kinda dim? IFL Science reports that the human brain uses about as much electricity as the average computer monitor: Considered […]
Fire-nadoes to clean the ocean
BBC’s Science Focus imagines a brighter future … brighter from the blazing fire-tornadoes used to clean plastics and oil from our over-polluted oceans: Taking inspiration […]
Science Art: Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism)…, 1915.
The full caption of this figure reads “Aneurismal dilatation (arteriovenous aneurism) of branches of coronary arteries in a case of anomalous origin of the left […]
A new explanation for the missing billion years in Earth’s geologic record.
IFL Science has a new explanation of “The Great Unconformity,” a worldwide phenomenon in which about a billion years of rock deposits are just missing, […]