Eric Heller’s Gallery of Quantum Art
Eric J. Heller Gallery A gallery of images by Harvard physics and chemistry professor Eric J. Heller. According to his website, his digital abstract art is inspired by: “a world we cannot directly see; the quantum realm of electrons, atoms, and molecules. The strange, often chaotic quantum domain yields forms, which I use as a […]
Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Science Channel Refuses To Dumb Down Science Any Further | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source. Ah, the Onion – always reliable for a laugh. The link above takes you to a story that’s funny because it’s a little too close to the truth for comfort. Many science shows on TV are incredibly dumbed […]
PopSci’s Apple iPad Hands On, and what the magic tablet means for us
Apple iPad Hands On | Popular Science PopSci’s hands-on impressions with the Ipad. There’s already been more than enough coverage of one of the most-hyped gadgets of all time (after the Iphone?), and it was never going to be able to live up to that hype. Other commenters have already noted its notable flaws (no […]
Forcing Scientists Into The Public Square | QUEST Community Science Blog – KQED
Forcing Scientists Into The Public Square | QUEST Community Science Blog – KQED. A blog post by Barry Starr, who I know from the Stanford at the Tech program, about getting scientists to do more outreach. He talks about why he thinks its important for scientists to get involved in outreach, and why their incentives […]
Nick Veasey’s X-ray Photography
While looking around for more interesting images, I came across Nick Veasey’s work. He’s used X-ray photography to reveal the unfamiliar insides of many familiar objects. I thought many of his images were striking, and his gallery of X-ray photos is well worth checking out. Source: Nick Veasey’s website
Photo Gallery of Cool New Science Images
As I’ve previously noted, I like cool, preferably scientific, images. I really enjoyed taking pretty microscope pictures as a graduate student, and I’ve been enjoying working on the Megapixels section of Popular Science and the Bull’s-Eye section of Science Illustrated, as well as for the various photo galleries I created for PopSci.com or posted about […]
Spirit was willing, but the front wheels were weak
After providing wonderful images of Mars for 6 years, and then getting its wheels stuck in sand, NASA announced a few days back that it would give up efforts to extricate the Spirit Mars Rover. While it can’t move around, it will serve help out as a stationary research platform. The webcomic XKCD had a […]
The Scale of the Universe
The Scale of the Universe. A nice animation that lest you zoom in and out from the smallest physically possible distance (the Planck Length of 10^-35 meters) to the estimated size of the known universe. I remember watching an Imax movie with the same basic concept. No matter what, I think it’s just hard for […]
LabGrab: What scientific topics are in the news?
Grab More Science News Graph | LabGrab. The link above features a site with an inventive way to show what scientific fields and topics were getting news coverage over the last couple of weeks. It offers a broad overview of all science in the news, with an option to choose how many days to cover, […]
A Race Against Time To Complete New Delhi’s Newest Subway Line | Popular Science
A Race Against Time To Complete New Delhi’s Newest Subway Line | Popular Science. Another Megapixels writeup from the February issue of Popular Science. This one was interesting because it was about the Delhi Metro; given that I went to high school in Delhi and visit their regularly, I’ve actually seen the Metro being constructed, […]