Science Art: Heart of the Turbine, by Lewis W. Hine, 1930.
A gelatin silver print of a man making a Westinghouse engine. I think this might be an AC generator, but I’m not sure – the […]
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 moreScience Art: Build Your Own Lie Detector, 1955
This is the opener for an article in the May 1955 issue of Popular Electronics. You can read the article here, …
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Living robots – “xenobots” – can reproduce themselves.
Science News is not panicking at all about the prospect of robots that can replicate copies of themselves that can then replicate copies of themselves: […]
Gene Roddenberry’s autograph in bacterial DNA sold as an NFT, displayed at Art Basel.
The Verge has one of the most potentially confusing science stories in a while. Gene Roddenberry’s estate, they report, has rendered the Star Trek creator’s […]
A particular body odor blocks aggression in men, but triggers aggression in women.
Science Advances sniffs out something peculiar in a “body volatile” (an actively smelly chemical) called hexadecanal, or HEX, which – based on a test using […]
Science Art: A Dragon Approaches, ESA/NASA, 2021
This is a view of the Dragon spaceship Endurance from an angle most of us never get to see – above the nose cone, which […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Léon Boëllmann – Prière à Notre-Dame by Lydia Kavina
An excerpt of a concert for theremin and organ, played at Moscow’s Bogolubov Library on September 19, 2021, with Lydia Kavina on the Thereminvox and […]
Thanksgiving Theremin: Carolina Eyck, Theremin Lesson 01: Pitch Field and Setup | Playing the Major Scale
Even if you don’t have a theremin at home, watching the lesson is strangely fascinating. Bodies affecting the invisible fields.
SONG: Butterflies
SONG: “Butterflies”. ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Discover, 3 Nov 21, “How Citizen Scientists Uncovered the Strange Behavior of ‘Vampire’ Butterflies,” as used in the post “Indonesian […]
Science Art: Papierformate 01 (fcm), by Frank C. Müller
This is a picture of paper sizes as compared to a human being who will presumably be reading or writing on them. It also has […]
Eco-friendly glitter exists. There’s hope for humanity after all.
Science News shows a sparkle of optimism with a story on a green alternative to craft glitter, made fabulous from cellulose and plant dyes instead […]
Cannabis use in pregnancy affects the fetus’ immune system… leading to anxiety and hyperactivity.
Scientific American reports on a PNAS study that linked increased anxiety, hyperactivity and aggression in children to cannabis use by their parents during pregnancy. It’s […]
The Russians seem to have blown up one of their satellites, and the ISS is dodging the debris.
There’s going to be more news on this shortly, but a a couple of Near-Earth Orbit tracking services are reporting on the Russian satellite Cosmos […]
Science Art: Bosom Pad (U.S. patent 404881), 1888.
This geometric shape might look like the kind of floral decoration old-time printers used to separate blocks of text, but no – it’s from a […]
The new COVID19 pill works by creating mutations. This has some virologists worried.
Science covers the controversy around Merck’s new antiviral pill, molnupiravir, which definitely interferes with viruses’ ability to reproduce, which kills nearly all infections … but […]
Indonesian citizen scientists discover VAMPIRE CANNIBAL BUTTERFLIES
Discover magazine reveals a grisly bit of previously unknown insect behavior recorded by Yi-Kai Tea and his fellow citizen scientists on the island of Sulawesi, […]