Nice little piece in Science Friday on the man who originally made photos of snowflakes. Starting in the late 19th Century:
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/the-man-who-froze-snowflakes-in-time/

Novel Protein Identified Inside Cells During MS Inflammation May Help Explain Nerve Damage

This links to another article, with the easy-to-pronounce title, "Endoplasmic Reticulum Plays Role In Multiple Sclerosis Progression". Scientists have long suspected that mitochondria, the energy-creating “powerhouse” of the cell, play a link in causing ( Read more... )

NASA successfully pilots spacecraft between Saturn and its rings
Unmanned Cassini is back in radio contact after historic first dive of its kind, NASA says

This is the interview in which Neil DeGrasse Tyson answers the question from the interviewer of what the "most astounding fact" was that he could share him about the universe, w/music behind it. It's beautiful & I thought I had it elsewhere on here, but it's probably buried in years of entries. So here it is, on Vimeo ( Read more... )

Where has this Amazing Comic Book Art Been all My Life?
By MessyNessy
June 30, 2016François Schuiten, like the creator of Tintin, is Belgian, and he’s best known for his drawing in the series Les Cités Obscures, a collaboration with his childhood friend, Benoît Peeters. They first worked together at the age of 12 on a school magazine; Benoît wrote ( Read more... )

Neat stuff:
http://mashable.com/2015/11/10/arnold-genthe-chinatown/#kj7s77_JSkqS

And lots of cute little kids walking around.

One year into an experiment in the Netherlands, it's working: The solar road in the Netherlands is working even better than expected.

It's so weird when left-y experiments work out.

Totally cool:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/05/javier-de-riba-spray-tiles/

Thanks to Phil Plait at Slate:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/05/27/time_lapse_trails_end_by_randy_halverson.html

Very delicate work:
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/04/elegant-fine-line-geometric-tattoos-by-dr-woo/