DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum

Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780

Charles Butler's the Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 Edition)

Who Invented the "Founding Fathers?"

Desire After the Sublime: A Critique of Pornographic Reason

The Heat Mirage: My least-favorite internet maneuver

“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”

The Brutal Origins of the Beautiful Game

How to title your blog post or whatever: Choose a classifier

An Infinite Number of Leaflike Skins: How Nadar Captured Paris

How much information is in DNA?

Tangled Dürer: The Six Knots (ca. before 1521)

Warburg's Werewolf: An Anamnesis

As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade

So much blood: But how much exactly?

Shoes That Changed (Fashion) History: Influential Icons

Cosmic Propaganda: The Soviet Space program in stamps

Trading stuff for money: Like kidneys or blood or babies

Snake Oil, Then and Now: Is this a new era of patent medicine?

From Walden Pond to the Ganges: The Improbable Global Trade in Ice

My More-hardcore Theanine Self-experiment: Coffee is bad

Reimagining synthetic skeletal editing strategy ticks box on chemists' wishlist

Microwaves' non-thermal effects on chemical reaction demonstrated for first time

Fullerenes help explain why there's so much molecular hydrogen in space

What Lord Elgin Did

Links for April: wolves, mold, WTO, chili dog, evolution, taurine, Hall, Meitner

How a Forgotten Battle Created a More Peaceful World

2 Good 2 Be 4 Gotten Early Modern-Style: Inside a 17th C. album amicorum

Earlywood: Death to Disposable Furniture

Paper and How to Use It

Men's Weird Collections Inspired the Modern Museum: Cabinets of Curiosities

Carl Linnaeus's Flower Clock

Salvador Dalí's Rare 1969 Illustrations for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

The Hogs of New York

Visions of Greenland

Limits of Smart: Molecules and Chaos

Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century

Is There a Ghost in the Machine? Thomas Edison, Technology, Spirituality, and AI

The circles of extrachromosomal DNA that cause cancer

Paneth's mirrors and the isolation of methyl radicals

Stretching spider silk increases hydrogen bonding, improving mechanical strength

Eleven chemists who have been honoured with a blue plaque

Simple trick lets pure blue quantum dots maintain performance without cadmium

Battling the Blaze: Artifacts from the history of firefighting

The Heathrow Fires: Accident, Incompetence, or Accelerationism?

<Verb> the Damn <Noun> After <Verbing>

Berkelium snared in organometallic trap

Tunnelling to the Heart of Cell Communication

A Stranger on the Shores of San Francisco: On Tech, Trade, the Crisis of Virtue

Bob Flexner, Crusader for Truth, 1940-2024

Imagining the Dinosaurs: How art, science combined to bring a lost world to life

Master of Claude de France's Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515)

What to Draw and How to Draw It (1913)

Ostrich Egg-Shell Cups of Mesopotamia, Ostrich in Ancient, Modern Times (1926)

Who Owns Beauty? How art became a public good – and why this may not last

Forbidden electrocyclic reactions can be more allowed than previously thought

Ferrihydrite in Martian dust may explain red planet's colour and water-rich past

Centre of the Earth could hold large reservoir of iron–helium compounds

Equinor Makes Significant Gas Discovery in Norwegian Sea's Halten Area

Time for a Change: The long, contentious history of time shifts

Flea treatment-tainted pet fur lining songbird nests may be killing chicks

Atomic Energy Authority chief executive to head up UKRI

Accidental discovery depolymerises commercial plexiglass

Could 'woolly' mice put mammoths on the path to de-extinction?

How Can Data Cooperatives Help Build a Fair Data Economy? [pdf]

Do You Want to See? On the nude and the new perception

The Ancient Art of Color

Bayes Is Not A Phase

The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life (1822 Edition)

The Drift of Things: David Goodman Croly's Glimpses of the Future (1888)

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

(–)-Scabrolide B (Again)

Online chemistry poster conference continues to grow as it hits 10th anniversary