Beaver architecture - artwork by Jan Sovaki There are some extraordinary architects amongst the animal kingdom. Our fellow mammals inclu...

Illustration showing movement of air through various rooms, from Lectures on Ventilation (1869) by Lewis W. Leeds. Image via Wikimed...

' Sofia Kovalevski ', linocut 9.25" by 12.5" (23.5 cm by 32 cm), 2014 by Ele Willoughby Today is the birthday of the g...

I've written previously about retro travel posters for otherwhere - different places in spacetime, different planets within our solar s...

Today is the 6th annual international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology, science and math, Ada Lovelace D...

Gafurius's Practica musice , 1496 showing Apollo, the Muses, the planetary spheres and musical ratios. Science and music, like othe...

This is a very simple post, but I really must share this great little animation. I am after all, a geophysicist by training, and this elegan...