Fingers of Science
I did not take these pictures. Well, I did take them, from the internet. For the past ten years I've been reading a science aggregator, on the weekends, looking for interesting articles, because I'm interested in science fiction. But something happened along the way. I noticed what I will call a class of "science imagery" that's used to illustrate "science articles" about new discoveries. This class of images, I wish maybe someone else could come up with a better name, it's when the scientist takes their discovery or their invention and holds it in between their fingers, and the camera zooms-in so we're looking at a close-up of said discovery or invention. Sometimes the scientist is in the background, a fuzzy face in safety goggles. Always they're wearing rubber gloves, and I get excited when I see certain colors of gloves, for example bone-white gloves, because that never happens. Sometimes it's just a picture of their whole hand not just their fingers. And sometimes it's not fingers at all but tweezers, which are like fingers, so it's close enough. The reason for all this? Not sure. This is memetics in action. I've looked at tens of thousands of articles over the last ten years. Maybe (300/wk x 50wks = 15,000/yr x 10yrs = 150,000). I'm not reading all of them, just the headlines, and I'm not looking at all the pictures, but my brain does see them, and this is what brains do, they see patterns, and this is a pattern, and it means something. What does it mean? I have no idea. Well I have ideas, but I'd rather let the images speak for themselves.
Solar furnace recycles watchmakers' waste metal to make aluminum ingot - Panatere - 2025
Braille touchscreen uses tiny explosions - Cornell - 2025
Rapid flash Joule heating technique recovers rare earth elements - Jeff Fitlow for Rice University - 2025
Diamond–titanium implant generates electricity from flowing liquid - Shu Zheng for RMIT University Advanced Manufacturing Precinct - 2025
Vial of lutein for serious vision conditions - Will Wright for RMIT University - 2025
Lung on a chip w built-in immune system - Georgia Institute of Technology - 2025
Exotic high-entropy alloy at room temp - Robinson Kuntz for Berkeley Lab - 2025
Photoswitch made of thienyl-based acylhydrazone - University of Chemistry and Technology Prague - 2025
Wearable sensor monitors low perspiration rates - Farnaz Lorestani for Penn State - 2025
DropSynth manufactures genes in oil droplet bioreactors - Heather Swift for University of Oregon - 2025
AgGaGe3Se8 crystal that behaves like glass - Peter F Gammelby for Aarhus University - 2025
Inner-speech decoder - Jim Gensheimer - 2025
Reusable jelly ice inspired by frozen tofu doesn't melt - UC Davis - 2025
Color-changing sensors for monitoring plant health - Matthew Modoono for Northeastern University and Kostas Research Institute - 2025
Hadrosaur tooth - John Friel for Alabama Museum of Natural History - 2025
More accurate simulation of fusion energy conditions uses particle accelerator and helium ion beams - Brenda Ahearn for University of Michigan College of Engineering - 2025
Organic photodetector-based spectrometer cells can measure full light spectra - Brendan O'Connor for North Carolina State University - 2025
Optical atomic clock with trapped aluminum ion - R Jacobson for NIST - 2025
Implantable device stores and delivers glucagon in diabetic emergencies - MIT - 2025
Boron nitride coating for low emissivity glass - Jorge Vidal for Rice University - 2025
Note this pic has the same weird filter I've been noticing, if you look closely it all looks fake, my guess is some compression for reducing storage space on their servers.
Time bin encoder for photons - Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology and Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique in Canada - 2025
Cryogenic control platform for spin qubits - University of Sydney Nano Institute - 2025
Carbon nanofibers made with better adhesion - Carlos Jones for USDOE ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory - 2025
Ingestible capsule once swallowed expands into star shape that remains in the stomach until all of the drug is released - Adam Glanzman for MIT - 2025
3D-printed zirconium-based MOF and graphene ink gas sensor for diagnosing methanol poisoning - Kamrul Hassan for University of Adelaide - 2025
Leprosy found in ancient DNA - Nicolas Rascovan for Institut Pasteur - 2025
Not only have I never see bone white gloves before, but it's holding a tooth, bone white.
Milli-spinner creates localized suction for blood clots - Andrew Brodhead for Stanford - 2025
CHESS controlled hierarchically engineered superlattice structures - Ed Whitman for Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory - 2025
Solid refrigerant may revolutionize air conditioning - Barcoal at University of Cambridge - 2025
Neuromorphic vision device - Will Wright, RMIT Center for Opto-electronic Materials and Sensors - 2025
Fruit fly astrocytes ie brain bits - Oregon Health & Science University and Christine Torres Hicks - 2025
Single smart capsule deliver drugs throughout the day - David Baillot UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering - 2025
Electrodialysis membrane for desalination - Marcin Szczepanski for Michigan Engineering and Jovan Kamcev - Apr 2025
RoboBee with crane fly-inspired legs - Eliza Grinnell for Harvard SEAS Communications - Apr 2025
Printable quantum dot solar cells - Shi et al for Soochow University in China - Apr 2025
solar panels are highly over-represented in the finger literature
A microscale brain sensor - W Hong Yeo for Georgia Institute of Technology's Wearable Intelligent Systems and Healthcare Center and several institutions in Korea - Apr 2025
Low-temperature synthesized copper bromide ammonia sensor - Korea Institute of Materials Science - Apr 2025
Flying robot equipped with tiny magnets so applying an external magnetic field causes the robot to spin - Adam Lau for Berkeley Engineering - Apr 2025
Experts challenge aspirin guidelines - Florida Atlantic University - Apr 2025
Microfluidic device to assemble nanoparticles - Gretchen Ertl for MIT - Apr 2025
Silver telluride colloidal quantum dot short wave infrared photodiodes on the left and solution-processed dots on the right - Jordi Cortés for ICFO Institute of Photonic Sciences - Apr 2025
Imitation skin made of optimized hydrogel 3D-printed w living cells - Manisha Sonthalia for Vellore Institute of Technology in India - Apr 2025
A pacemaker that can be non-invasively injected into the body via syringe - John A. Rogers for Northwestern University - Apr 2025
Berkelocene is the first organometallic molecule characterized by the heavy element berkelium - Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - Mar 2025
Liquid nanofoam to shield vital internal organs - Michigan State University - Mar 2025
A 3D-printed soft actuator or artificial muscle - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology - Mar 2025
Perovskite LED - Muyi Zhang at Linköping University by Olov Planthaber - Mar 2025
Mice genetically engineered to have hair like wooly mammoth - Colossal Biosciences via AP - Mar 2025
Organic semiconductor sensor for hydrogen - Thomas Anthopoulos for University of Manchester - Mar 2025
Tin processed into porous foam battery electrode - B Bouabadi Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres HZB - Feb 2025
Wearable fiber computer braided with metal and textile yarns - Hamilton Osoy IFM - Feb 2025
Bread-derived carbon electrodes - David Bujdos for Saint Vincent College and the University of Pittsburgh - Feb 2025
Just imagery used for an article about a dictionary of fragrances - Jens Meyer for University of Jena - Feb 2025
Malva nuts expand 8x volume and 20x weight in water can be a viscoeleastic hydrogel for medical use - University of Chicago by Chuanwang Yang - Feb 2025
Thermophotovoltaics using zero-vacuum gap allows thermal waves to travel without losing strength - Cui Research Group, Jesse Morgan Petersen, CU Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science - Feb 2025
Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistor can sense, process and store visual information - U of Glasgow - Jan 2025
Gut-on-chip miniature model of the human intestine on a chip-sized device - olitecnico di Milano - Feb 2025
Megalodon fossil tooth. Credit - Kristen Grace for Florida Museum of Natural History - Feb 2025
Molecular solar thermal energy storage using silicon-based photovoltaics - Paulius Baronas for Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—BarcelonaTech - Feb 2025
Small plastic chip filled with human blood stem cells to mimic bone marrow in the human embryo - Penn Engineering, Perelman School of Medicine and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Jan 2025
Diamond-based transistor - University of Glasgow - Jan 2025
Manufacturing digital memories w xenon enables even coating in small cavities - Professor Henrik Pedersen at Linköping University by Olov Planthaber - Jan 2025
QR codes attached to bees to track them to their hives - Penn State - Jan 2025
Electrocaloric cooling pump for next-gen wearables - UCLA Soft Materials Research Laboratory - Jan 2025
New electrode for battery-based desalination - Fred Zwicky for University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Jan 2025
Hummingbird being studied for torpor behavior - U of New Mexico - Jan 2025
3D-printed metamaterial can behave like a flowing liquid or became rigid - Zhou et al w Cal Tech, Lawrence Livermore and Princeton - Jan 2025
Surveilling phantom agent plant pathogens - The Arkansas Clean Plant Center - Jan 2025
Quantum refrigerator - Myfab Lab at Chalmers University of Technology by Lovisa Håkansson - Dec 2024
Microbial bile acids might reveal risk of colon cancer - Sally Griffith-Oh for Ting Fu, Xingchen Dong, Fei Sun at UW–Madison - Dec 2024
Penicillium citrinum mold studied for cancer fighting and other medical purposes - Bella Ciervo at U Penn - Dec 2024
Multi-organ on a chip device for studying space radiation - Naveed Tavakol and Kacey Ronaldson-Bouchard at Columbia - Dec 2024
Coin cell made of a magnesium instead of lithium - University of Waterloo - Dec 2024
Mini-brains aka brain organoids - University of Bergen - Dec 2024
Ultra-high-quality ring resonator turns "coarse" light into a low linewidth laser - Sonia Fernandez for Andrei Isichenko at UC Santa Barbara - Dec 2024
Engineered and re-programmable E. coli bacteria plastic - Matthew Modoono at Northeastern University - Nov 2024
Inverted perovskite solar cell with hole-selective contacts - EPFL Felix T. Eickemeyer - 2023
Microneedle skin patch - University of Bath - 2023
AI Faux Finger Art via Lexica - Hand holding old cassette tape - 2023
Wearable sensor for glucose monitoring - Kate Myers at Penn State - 2023
Thermal magIC thermometry camera - Jennifer Lauren Lee at NIST - 2023
MilliMobile the self-driving robot powered by light or radio waves - Mark Stone University of Washington - 2023
Screen-printed, flexible sensors attached to earbuds - Erik Jepsen University of California San Diego - 2023
Small robotic devices microflier - Mark Stone for University of Washington - 2023
14nm analog AI chip - Ryan Lavine for IBM - 2023
Shapeshifting robot CLARI - Casey Cass CU Boulder - 2023
Miniature human heart on a microchip - Tissue Dynamics - 2023
Prototype solid-state stacked battery - Empa - Swiss National Science Foundation - 2023
Remaining Denisova 11 Denny bone fragment - Katerina Douka, Tom Higham, Institute for Basic Science - 2023
Nanoparticle sensors - Macquarie University - 2023
Flexible perovskite solar cell - Stepan Demchyshyn - 2023
Perovskite silicon tandem solar cell - Johannes Beckedahl, Lea Zimmerman, HZB - 2023
Tunable superconducting diode - University of Minnesota Twin Cities - 2023
Smart Bandage - University of Glasgow - 2023
Optical coherence tomography uses light waves to take cross sectional images - R Wilson at NIST - Apr 2023
Piezoelectric sensor - University of Houston - 2023
Covalent organic framework material - Gustavo Raskosky at Rice University - 2023
Prototype fuel cell wrapped in fleece - Fussenegger Lab at ETH Zurich - 2023
Smart bandage by Caltech - 2023
Thermally resistant copper sandwich - Carnegie Mellon Unviersity College of Engineering - 2023
Recycling batteries - Chen Feng and Marilyn Sargent at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory - 2023
Printable transparent plastic - James Ponder Georgia Tech - 2022
Graphene device grown on a silicon carbide substrate chip - Jess Hunt-Ralston at Georgia Institute of Technology - 2022
Gnat Robot includes a 2 mg gyroscope, 3 mg microprocessor, and 1 mg visual optic flow sensor - Fuller, Yu & Talwekar U of Wash - 2022
Artificial fairy - Hao Zeng, Jianfeng Yang, Jianfeng Yang at Tampere University - 2023
Hydrogen-substituted graphdiyne coupled with a single-crystal copper catalyst - Vincent Tung, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology - 2022
Anterior teeth with a huge dental calculus deposit from Copper Age Italy 3.000 BC - Andrea Quagliariello - 2022
All-perovskite tandem solar cell with power conversion efficiency of 27.4% - Aaron Demeter at University of Toronto Engineering - 2022
Fragment of Winchcombe meteorite - The Trustees of the Natural History Museum of London
- 2022
Hydrophobic film - Sahar Babaeipour at Aalto University - 2022
Programmable bacteria electronics - Brandon Martin at Rice University - 2022
Spectrometer on a chip - Oregon State and Aalto University - 2022
Single-cell electrorotation microfluidic device utilizes - Texas A and M Engineering - 2022
800,000 Lab-grown Brain Cells Play Pong - Cortical Labs - 2022
Ionic Circuit - Woo-Bin Jung Harvard SEAS - 2022
Recycled Plastic - Patrick Campbell University of Colorado Boulder - 2022
Single-Crystal Organometallic Perovskite Optical Fiber - Dr Lei Su at Queen Mary University of London - 2022
Rhizosphere-on-a-chip - Carlos Jones, ORNL, US Dept of Energy - 2022
Implantable Sensor - Shangbin Liu Penn State Tsinghua University - 2022
hectoSTAR probe - Eunah Ko shows University of Michigan - 2022
Wearable Thermoelectric Device - Han et al University of Washington Advanced Energy Materials - 2022
SbSI and SbSI-Sb2S3 Photovoltaic Devices - Ryosuke Nishikubo - 2022
Liquid crystal elastomers with thermoelectrical device transducer - Soft Machines Lab, Carnegie Mellon University - 2022
Photonic Processor - June Sang Lee University of Oxford - 2022
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