It's done in the name of research, but it's also d...  ...rch, but it's also done in the name of tradition. Scientists tend to taste what they are studying. After all,...  ...and insects are all known to have been sampled by scientists . Link -via Not Exactly Rocket Science

We all know it: women are a minority among scientists . Journalists love to write about them, but storie...  ...ts love to write about them, but stories of women scientists tend to focus on the fact that they are women to...  ...e they are doing. Media profiles often put female scientist...

Graphic artist Kapil Bhagat designed a series of t...  ...of ten typographic posters featuring the names of scientists , with each showing a clever clue as to what they...

Illustrator Chay Hawes created these images of six...  ...Hawes created these images of sixteen well-known scientists from history. How many can you name? See a larger...

DeviantART member datazoid, otherwise known as Rus...  ...able to buy! Datazoid admits there are many other scientists who deserve to be included. He limited them to 20...  ...le.There are notes on the creation of some of the scientists at the DeviantART page, as well as a much-larger...

Scientists are mostly a humble bunch, as they spend a big pa...  ...ten don't know they are incompetent, professional scientists are often smart enough to think they don't quite...

On a list of the 15 heaviest coffee-drinking profe...  ...e-drinking professions, mine only came in fourth. Scientists and lab technicians are at the top, drinking more...  ..., teachers, and everyone else.Among those polled, scientists and lab techs were found to be the heaviest coffe...  ...ash; or any other c...

Alex posted an item about stem cells living long a...  ...ween Life and Death, who says medical doctors and scientists don't see death in the same way, and there are di...  ...egin spontaneously breathing hours later. Medical scientists say it doesn't matter because most brain-dead pat...

Movies and television shows always show scientists as being stuffy older folks shrouded in white lab...  ...older folks shrouded in white lab coats, but real scientists look much more like the rest of us than they woul...  ...is Is What A Scientist is so great -it shows real scientis...

(YouTube Link) A robot that can learn, think an...  ...ity of a Terminator-esque robotic revolution, but scientists in Japan feel that this advancement in the field...