Science Art: Noordung’s Space Station Habitat Wheel, 1929
Here’s a space station from before the first rocket left Earth’s atmosphere. The description from DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Service) Hub, where I found […]
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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Thanksgiving Theremin: Which Theremin Should You Get?
Caroline Scruggs enthusiastically shares her five favorite theremins for beginners.
Thanksgiving Theremin: Man or Astro-Man Live in Scotland, 1999
Look for the theremin at 1:54… if you dare!
Science Art: Plate LXXXI from A natural history of British moths, 1872.
These are English moths, of the geni Rhodophaea, Oncocera, Aphomia, Galleria, Melliphora, Halias and Sarrothripa. Each species in this book has a description like: The […]
No song for November
It is now vanishingly unlikely there will be a song here for November. December will have to have a penitential cover.
Octopus color-changing pigment is recreated.
Science Alert reports on the latest superpower to be replicated in the lab with a UC San Diego team producing xanthommatin, the pigment chemical responsible […]
Science Art: New Patent Hot Air Motors…, 1894
This is an ad from the back cover of Science Gossip magazine, a publication which I discovered via Nemfrog. These “hot-air motors” were made by […]
Snot drones for whale science
Knowable Magazine reports on a new use for remote-controlled drones — to collect DNA samples from whales blowing mucus out their blowholes, and to simply […]
Science Art: The Ophidian Eye in Vertical Section, 1942
When the snake sees, this is what the snake sees with. The snake in question is Natrix natrix, the barred grass snake. The image was […]
A cave full of 111,000 spiders in the dark.
Live Science goes into the brimstone of the underworld — a sulfuric cave literally named “Sulfur Cave” — on the border of Greece and Albania, […]
A toilet powered by mushrooms
CTV News has an item from University of British Columbia researchers who have found an alternative to Port-a-Potties and camp toilets that doesn’t need all […]
Science Art: Illustration of a Southern Sierra Nevada fisher
This is a mustelid, a relative of weasels and wolverines, called a fisher. The scientific name is Pekania pennanti. They’ve never been very common, and […]
Eye implant reverses blindness
Nature reports on an electronic retinal implant that has successfully allowed people with age-related macular degeneration to see again: The implant, which measures 2 millimetres […]
Satellites are the weak link in keeping secrets.
Wired has an unsettling bit of tech reporting on how easy it is to see nearly all of our secrets with about $800 worth of […]
Science Art:Vergleich der Aufnahme von RNA und modR in der Zelle, 2018
A diagram of two kinds of RNA doing their thing inside a cell (which is converting instructions from DNA into some kind of protein that […]