If you love science fiction then you probably have at least a passing interest in science, if not an outright passion for it. I really love science-y stuff, interesting facts, and watching TV. That’s what makes this video from the wonderfully random site mental_floss so great; it combines all three of those things into one […]
Practically all of the cool things you can do with today’s multi-talented smartphones involve downloading an app. “There’s an app for that!” is practically a cliche’, even if it’s true most of the time. But apps are limited by the phone’s physical limitations, so no matter how good the camera may be you just can’t […]
The original Cosmos hosted by the late Carl Sagan premiered over 30 years ago and was an instant hit with viewers worldwide. I don’t know of anyone who hasn’t at least heard of Cosmos and it’s about time it returned. In a time when we’re trying to spark an interest in the sciences we need […]
Space exploration is no longer restricted to NASA and other countries’ government-run space programs. Hardly a week passes these days without hearing new and exciting news about another private enterprise advancement in the field. Keep reading for news about an exciting project that you can help back through a Kickstarter campaign that was first reported […]
Motorcycles and the fictional characters who ride them epitomize rebellion, independence and individuality. These characters tend to be edgy, jaded and vengeful. They’re guys that you want at your back in a bar fight and the type a father never wants to see his daughter so much as looking at. They are anti-heroes, and the […]
NASA tweets. A lot. And when NASA tweets it’s always something exciting and worth a look. Just look at the picture above. It’s an extremely scaled-down version of a 1.3 billion (Yes, that’s with a B like Batman!) pixel full-circle panorama of everybody’s second favorite planet, Mars. To put that resolution into perspective, that’s 1300 […]
I’m old enough to remember when man first set foot on the moon, but even before that I was a huge fan of space exploration. As long as I can remember I’ve been fascinated with space and the idea of going there. For the majority of my life the very idea of an average citizen […]
I’m going to really date myself here, but when I was a kid one of the coolest things about watching Lost In Space was when they’d break out the jet pack and fly, almost like Superman. Well, close enough. James Bond even did it once. James Bond is cool. We used to think that one […]
Smartphones are great, I think we can all agree on that. They’re little computers in your hand that can do almost anything short of cooking dinner. There is a divide however: You either have to go with a completely touch screen phone or something bulkier if you want a real keyboard with raised keys. Personally, […]
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 […]
