Hubble Image Captures Collision Of Two Spiral Galaxies

Aakash Nihalani

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Tetrahedrite with Siderite

Locality:  Saint-Pierre-de-Mesage, Vizille, Rhone-Alpes, France

Tesla at work. (via Reddit)

‘Antique Adventures’ limited edition screenprint set

June 8th is World Oceans Day - a day to celebrate the oceans that connect and sustain all of us. Our colleagues at the Biodiversity Heritage Library have been leading up to today with a series of blog posts  exploring historic publications that mark important milestones in the progress of marine bioscience research and ocean exploration.

Top image: Whale shark from  Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa… v.4 (1845) Middle top : radiolarians and jellyfish from Ernst Haeckle’s Kunstformen der Natur (1904) Middle bottom: giant squid from Cassell’s Natural History v.5-6 and cuttlefish from  Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe Mollusques and Zoophytes Atlas (1833) Bottom: deep sea fish from  Valdivia Expedition…1898-1899. Bd. 15, T. 1

NGC 4725, One-Armed Spiral Galaxy  

Moss Green Halite

Locality:  Sieroszowice Mine, Lower Silesia, Poland

2015 Roundup

Previous years: 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010. Cool things hopefully coming to this space in 2016. In the meantime, SCIENCE!

Ghost particles.

The McGurk effect is an audiovisual illusion that works even when you know how it works. It shows that understanding speech is visual as well as auditory.

True-color composite of Pluto and its moon Charon.

Jamais vu, the evil twin brother of deja vu.

A few amusing math terms, including surreal numbers and the Cox-Zucker Machine.

The solar eclipse of March 20, 2015. Wow, has it been that long already?

How many words for snow do the Eskimos have? Answer: not as many as you think.

God’s number and the Rubik’s Cube.

Trading in futures in a feudal Japanese rice market.

Quite a few of you have been messaging me using the new messaging system on Tumblr. I can’t respond to all of you if all you say is “hi”–honestly, what did you expect? But if you have any feedback on what you’d like to see here, feel free to do so. See you in 2016, may it be another great year for science!