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 […]
**New to Nina? Click here to start from the nuclear Lovecraft-ian beginning! Updated Monthly.** Gelard 9 was a primitive world that existed snugly in its own time, cut off from the rest of the universe. The inhabitants of Gelard 9 only went outside in the large protective space suits of their forefathers, the original settlers […]
**New to Nina? Click here to start from the nuclear Lovecraft-ian beginning! Updated Monthly.** The ship hung silently before her, a dead cold hull floating against a speckled starry backdrop. The ship seemed to have been abandoned some time ago as it now hung there in lonesome solitude. No debris field or pulse beacon, […]
**New to Nina? Click here to start from the nuclear Lovecraft-ian beginning! Updated Monthly.** Nina hated the way Clarina ate her meat. It was an act of aggression and dominance. A show put on for her benefit. All of this was a show, fine things at a fine price meant to show Nina […]
**New to Nina? Click here to start from the nuclear Lovecraft-ian beginning! Updated Monthly.** Nina never slept during space travel. Her ship was fast and complex, nothing so simple as to be left to autopilot. Besides pirate ships and worse scanned ships for cryogenic support systems, easy prey for their crackers […]
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 […]
