Science Art: Curiosity Approaching Mars, Artist’s Concept, 2012
Is it strange how much this resembles a 1950s comic-book cover about dashing flying saucer pilots? And we made it real, and we sent it […]
Science Art: Psyche Spacecraft at the Asteroid Psyche, 2026
From the NASA Scientific Visualization Studio:
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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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1 Arm
2…
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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Age-blocking injection rebuilds knee cartilage.
Sci Tech Daily investigates a new treatment for arthritis that can not just stop joint damage but actually reverse it by blocking chemicals associated with […]
Long life really can come down to good ancestors.
Well, good at living a long time, at least. Nature reports on a study that finds about 55 percent of the factors that grant a […]
Fossil reveals new *kingdom* of life.
Science Adviser reports on the discovery (or rediscovery) of a fossil that is not just a new species, not just a new class, order, nor […]
Science Art: Don’t wait – 70% are doomed, c. 1936
This is a poster from the WPA urging people to save their own lives … by getting tested for a sexually transmitted disease. The geometry […]
SONG: Social Prosthetic
SONG: “Social Prosthetic”. (OGG version here.) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Cultivate Famous Scientists?”, Scientific American, 20 Jan 2026, as used […]
Why did Jeffrey Epstein “collect” so many scientists?
Scientific American has a rather deeply researched piece on something that feels like it’s about politics at first, since it’s following the donations of a […]
Science Art: From Les raisons des forces mouuantes, etc., 1615.
This is a light experiment from the 1600s, which I found in the British Library archive over yonder. The book, Les raisons des forces &c […]
Wearing octopus camouflage
Nature reports on materials engineers stealing the secrets of octopus skin to create substances that can change color and texture on demand: Very small sub-micrometre […]
Robots the size of microbes.
Science recently covered some breakthroughs in building robots that measure less than a millimeter square, but can sense surroundings, carry out commands, make calculations, and […]
Science Art: Violet-Rays!, 1917
This is an ad from the April 1917 edition of Hugo Gernsback’s The Electrical Experimenter, which you can read on archive.org here. I can only […]
Caribbean whales have viruses we’ve never heard of.
Science Daily reports on pilot whales and orcas in the Caribbean which DNA analysis has revealed are carrying “invisible” viruses we’ve never detected before: The […]
Why is your brain so tired?
Nature reports on new findings about the roots of mental fatigue — which has implications not just for generally feeling worn out, but also for […]
Pink Power Ranger hacker breaks white power websites.
CyberNews reports on Martha Root, a pseudonymous hacker who single-handedly infiltrated and shut down a series of websites dedicated to white power: The leak affects […]
Science Art: The Poultry of the World, 1868
Fifty-two breeds of chickens! This is an educational poster from the 1800s, published by L. Prang & Co., Boston, the makers of “Prang’s American Chromos: […]