Science Art: Diagram to Show the Destination of the Arterial Arches in Man and Mammals. (Modified from Rathke. )
Click to embiggen This is an anatomical drawing of the blood vessels around the heart, but it’s odd to me how much it looks like […]
SONG: 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, …
Read moreScience 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…
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Sugar – as in sweet sodas – disrupts kids’ brain development.
Translational Psychiatry has some research that should be making a bigger splash. It indicates that feeding kids more sugar affects the development of their brains […]
“Xenobots” are tiny robots made from living cells – self-healing swarms that can form bodies… and memories.
Eurekalert introduces the next generation of living robots. Tufts University biologists and computer scientists have created a second generation of tiny, biological machines they’re calling […]
A 12,500-year-old statue is rewriting history. Or prehistory.
The New York Times examines the Shigir Idol, a wooden statue from the Ural Mountains that defied decay to become the oldest known work of […]
Science Art: Owen Magnetic Radiator Emblem
From 1915 to 1922, this was the symbol of electric luxury – or at least a hybrid-electric luxury car. The Owen Magnetic label was a […]
Cone snails trick their prey into thinking it’s time to get it on. Then they eat ’em.
Science News shares a nightmare scenario from the ocean. The lights are low, there’s slow music playing, and look, there’s someone sexy over by the […]
The key to staying fit when you’re less active is maintaining your intensity.
Outside takes a hard, scientific look at our pandemic year (and our softening middle sections) using a measure called “VO2,” which is a way of […]
Fake news is a symptom… of fast scrolling social media. (Not wishes, partisan thinking, or anything else.)
Scientific American broadcasts a study (by David Rand and Gordon Pennycook, published in Nature) that looked at why misinformation spreads online, and found that it […]
SONG: Welcome to the Landing
SONG: “Welcome to the Landing” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on NASA, 5 Mar 2021, Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’”, as used in the Science […]
Science Art: A quarantine safeguards health…, 1936.
Click to embiggen This is how public health was handled in the days before a lot of diseases were considered “eradicated.” It’s from The Body […]
A new Dead Sea Scroll… and even more ancient things.
NPR reports that archaeologists working in caves on the shores of the Dead Sea have found, for the first time in 60 years, another fragmentary […]
They resuscitated 100 million-year-old bacteria.
Scientific American reports on new evidence that bacteria may be “effectively immortal” after researchers brought back microbes that settled to the ocean floor tens of […]
To take a “D” off ADHD.
Scientific American puts forward an argument for renaming the neurological, psychological, something-ological condition that we currently call ADHD: The classificatory terms we use all refer […]
Science Art: Welcome to ‘Octavia E. Butler Landing’, NASA, 2021.
Click to embiggen NASA named the landing site for the Mars rover mission after science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. As they say on their […]
Mars rover sends “overwhelming” audio home. (And video and pics too.)
Science magazine celebrates an unusual media package – pictures, movies, and most of all sounds sent to Earth from the Mars Perseverance rover: But perhaps […]