Nina’s right arm was a tapestry of destruction, an inked and toned muscled map of her kills and conquests. Monsters never before seen were forever immortalized in their horror. Monsters she had hunted and slain out here in the far reaches of space and time. There was so much darkness in the universe, and [...]

Okay, maybe not your DNA specifically, but it looks like the key to extremely high density data storage could lie in using DNA itself as the storage medium.  Over at Nature.com is an article describing how three researchers have encoded a little over 5mb of a book draft along with some jpeg images and a [...]

The image above probably doesn’t look very impressive.  After all it’s just someone shining a light at a water-filled Coke bottle, right?  Well, yes and no. What you’re actually seeing is a pulse of light captured as it’s passing through the bottle.  In fact, it’s captured with such a high frame rate that it looks [...]

Arthur C. Clarke was known worldwide as a prolific author, futurist and the man most often credited with the concept of the geostationary communications satellite.  While the idea was posited by others before Clarke, he was probably most instrumental in giving the idea widespread popularity, and in that vein he brought them to life.  Because [...]

We live in an awesome time when today’s technology can bring us computer-generated imagery of almost anything we can imagine and make it nearly indistinguishable from reality.  Even with all the truly unbelievable vistas created using CGI, you still can’t beat the real thing.  For example, the picture above is a Hubble Telescope image of [...]

On Doctor Who, the Doctor’s most valuable tool is his brain, but when that’s not quite enough he turns to his trusty sonic screwdriver.  Calling it a screwdriver is really doing the handy little tool a disservice as it’s been used for a myriad of purposes no other tool bearing the word “screwdriver” could ever [...]