SONG: Lost Aromas (A Rose)
SONG: “Lost Aromas (A Rose)”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover 25 Jan 2022, “Smells Are Going Extinct, So Researchers Are Working to Preserve Them,” as used […]
Science Art: Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche, 2026
From the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio:
Read moreThis illustration depicts NASA’s Psyche spacecraft. Launched…
Science Art: Body-centered cubic (bcc) unit cell of iron, 2009
If you were curious about the crystalline structure of iron mentioned in the last post, here it is — a molecul…
Read moreScience 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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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…
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Big Dog is being outrun – by an emu-inspired BirdBot
Science reports on a Human Frontier Science Program project that is creating a more stable, more self-controlled walking robot by basing its motion on emus […]
Science Art: Lysiopetalum Cavernarum, Etc., Emerton & Packard, del., 1888.
This is a collection of bits and pieces (including “male genital armature” in 1s and 1t) of Pseudotremia cavernarum, the cave millipede. Yes, the researchers […]
The earliest North Americans were hanging out hunting horses in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.
Hakai Magazine (via Smithsonian) shares some discoveries from the Bluefish Caves in the northern Yukon, where archaeologists have unearthed clues to a whole human society […]
On the extinction of smells, and the attempt to preserve an aroma.
Discover reports on the growing field of “scent researchers” who are attempting to bring back smells that have long since gone away, and to record […]
We discovered a new kind of tarantula. It lives inside bamboo.
Science News has unfortunate news for arachnophobes who like relaxing in bamboo furniture. For the first time in more than a century, a new species […]
Science Art: Yearly Potato Production, from Natural History Magazine, March 1947.
In 1947, Natural History Magazine took a deep dive into potatoes – where they came from and where they’re going … and growing. The story […]
Russia’s war reaches into space, leaving an American astronaut potentially stranded.
ABC News reports on an unintended consequence of the war in Ukraine that’s creating a tricky situation far overhead. American astronaut Mark Vande Hei, currently […]
Venus of Willendorf actually not of Willdendorf – she’s Italian!
Archaeology Today has the news – heartwrenching to Austrians, joyous to Italians – that one of the world’s most famous figurines, the round-bodied Venus of […]
Science Art: Meda Songs, 1851
This is a chromolithograph by James Ackerman made of a watercolor by Seth Eastman who was copying an Ojibwe music board – a birchwood slab […]
Prehistoric pigment points to archaic brain trust.
Nature reports on the discovery of an unusually advanced settlement in East Asia. Around 40,000 years ago, when Denisovans, Neanderthals, and the very first Homo […]
“Difficult” bacteria has chainmail to protect it from antibiotics.
Science News reveals the secret that makes Clostridium difficile infections so tough to treat – an outer barrier called “the S layer” that protects the […]
Science Art: The Hubble Space Telescope is lifted into the workstands…, 1990
There’s a new space telescope getting ready to do its thing now, but here’s a look back to when the last one was brand new. […]
Somebody’s rocket is about to crash into the moon. We’re not really sure whose.
Space.com introduces a new wrinkle in the growing space-junk problem. There’s so much stuff flying around us, we’re no longer sure where it came from […]
SONG: Remember Your Hands
SONG: “Remember Your Hands”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Science News 31 Jan 2022, “A new device helps frogs regrow working legs after an amputation,” as used […]