Archaeologists Map Roman Catacombs with Lasers
A monk dusts down the remains of his dead comrades in the catacombs of a Capuchin monastery in Rome. (Vecchio/Three Lions/Getty Images) Roughly 24 miles (38 kilometers) of subway tracks worm their way...
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"Connie, forget building a Hilton on the moon. What about the constellation Ursa Major?" (Image courtesy AMCTV) Like a lot of you, I recently watched the season finale of AMC’s “Mad Men,” the absolute...
View ArticleWorld Record #136 – The world’s largest scientific instrument is called LISA...
The world’s largest scientific instrument is the Large Hadron Collider. But in the not too distant future it will be LISA, or Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. The goal of LISA is to detect...
View ArticleCan you really laser proof anything?
The free mix features this epic "Ironman 2" inspired album art. That's La Roux's Elly Jackson on the right and the fictional "Major Lazer" in the War Machine gear. Last week, Major Lazer and La Roux...
View Article“TRON” Style Beam-propelled Solar Sailing
The Grid in "TRON: Legacy." (Photo by Walt Disney Pictures) The original movie “TRON” featured a breathtaking scene in which a Solar Sailer zips across the virtual world of the Grid on a beam of...
View ArticleCheck into the “TRON” Suite at ICEHOTEL
I think somebody in Sweden is kinda excited about the new “TRON” movie. British designers Ben Rousseau and Ian Douglas-Jones have created a “TRON”-themed suite at Sweden’s infamous ICEHOTEL. The hotel,...
View ArticleReplacing an engine’s spark plugs with lasers – that sounds like the Stuff of...
The Spark Plugs used in an internal combustion engine have been nearly unchanged since the beginning. The design is very simple – a high-voltage spark jumps a tiny gap and this spark ignites gasoline....
View ArticleScientists Create First Biological Laser from Human Cells
Laserblast! (Amazon.com) That’s right, the age of the biological laser is upon us. But before you let your mind run wild with visions of crazy-awesome bioweapon arms and Cyclops laser blasts, we should...
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