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Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.

14 June 2013 grant 0

Bioscience Technology opens our eyes to the groundbreaking researchers who have discovered a whole new layer of the human cornea:

The new layer has been dubbed the Dua’s Layer after the

… Read the rest “Look closer. We discovered a whole new body part – and it’s in your eye.”

Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova

14 April 2013 grant 0

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This eye-catching dress is based on retinal neurons as observed by Ferrucio Tartuferi in 1887. He put eyes under the microscope and looked at what could have been looking back at him.

The … Read the rest “Science Art: Neuroscience Dress Trippy Retina Print, by Shenova”

Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.

23 December 2012 grant 0

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We’ve talked about digital subtraction angiography before… taking X-ray images and using a computer to remove everything you *don’t* want to see.

This image, of aortal… Read the rest “Science Art: Leriche Syndrome Digital Subtraction Angiography by Hellerhoff.”

The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.

21 September 2012 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment reveals how computers can now ID you by watching you walk:

he National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has developed a walking gait recognition system that, in combination

… Read the rest “The way you walk is just the way YOU walk. And the computer knows it.”

Science Art: Reptile Skeletons and Skulls, from Allgemeine Naturgeschichte für alle Stände, 1835

12 August 2012 grant 0

They look even more reptilian from the *inside*.

This image was part of one of those wonderful 19th-century German encyclopedias, but I found it in the New York Public Library Digital Gallery.

Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839

10 June 2012 grant 0

Things will get better.

This somber fellow illustrated the “Face” article in Robert Bentley Todd’s Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology. He was drawn by Richard … Read the rest “Science Art: Figure 134, from “Face,” by Richard Partridge, in The Cyclopaedia of Anatomy and Physiology, 1839”

Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon

26 February 2012 grant 1


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An angioma is a benign tumor. This one is on a finger.

Image made by Dr. Michel Royon, apparently by using digital subtraction angiography – taking an X-ray of some… Read the rest “Science Art: Angiome Annulaire, by Dr. Michel Royon”

Science Art: Dissection of it all by D.E. Eastman

14 August 2011 grant b 0


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A portrait of a tattoo of an anatomical engraving, each of which is beautiful enough on its own….

From D.E. Eastman, via Scientific Illustration.

Science Art: Museum Drawings from Last Friday by bells.

16 July 2011 grant b 0

museum drawings from friday, by bells (bequietyellingcat.tumblr.com)
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From the tumblog bequietyellingcat:

museum drawings from last friday. fun fact: the dire wolf was native only to the americas, especially california. so now i’m pretending

… Read the rest “Science Art: Museum Drawings from Last Friday by bells.”

Science Art: Fig. 179. – Profile view of a human embryo of about three weeks, showing the cephalic visceral arches and clefts and their relations to the arterial arches, from Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 1898

3 July 2011 grant b 0

This is a human embryo, from the first volume of an 1898 textbook for college students. The book was actually first published in the 1840s, meaning it’s probably best if we don’t… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig. 179. – Profile view of a human embryo of about three weeks, showing the cephalic visceral arches and clefts and their relations to the arterial arches, from Quain’s Elements of Anatomy, 1898”

Look inside.

5 January 2011 grant b 0

This isn’t a discovery so much as a great resource (and wonderful source of visuals), but you should really look inside The Cell Image Library… and look inside your cells.

Really.… Read the rest “Look inside.”

Running barefoot.

3 February 2010 grant b 0

ScienceDaily keeps up with the latest research into the health benefits of running without shoes:

[S]ays Daniel E. Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard University

… Read the rest “Running barefoot.”

Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.

3 January 2010 grant b 0



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These are notes and pen-over-chalk sketches of a 4-month-old fetus (and the structure of the placenta) as seen by Leonardo da Vinci. The first idea of the fetal position… Read the rest “Da Vinci Studies of Fetuses, photo by Luc Viatour.”

Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.

27 December 2009 grant b 1

William Miller was an engraver and illustrator in the 1800s, known familiarly as “the Scotch Quaker.” He created wonderfully detailed plates of, well, nearly anything that… Read the rest “Science Art: Human Skull, Plate V by William Miller.”

SONG: Dear Winter.

23 December 2009 grant b 0

SONG: “Dear Winter” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Humans Have Hidden Sensory System”, LiveScience… Read the rest “SONG: Dear Winter.”

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