Balancing on a Giant Rubber Band 1000 ft in the Air

Photo: Greg Beadle via Cape Town Blog With the wind whistling in your ears, a breathtaking view before your eyes, and a yawning gulf beneath your feet, would it matter whether your steps over the abyss were so... well... elastic? Balancing and bouncing about on a thin but obligingly flat [...]

Lake Powell: The Southwest Desert's 200 Mile Long Reservoir

Photo: Mike OReilly As a person who cares deeply about the preservation of natural spaces and ecosystems, I have mixed feelings about the very existence of Lake Powell, America’s second-largest man-made lake. One general rule about dams is that they present an ecological nightmare for most [...]

iPad Survives Fall From Edge of Space in Jaw-Dropping Video

A new video has captured an Apple iPad's mindboggling fall to Earth from a balloon in the stratosphere in what may be the ultimate tablet survivor tale. The high-definition video shows the iPad falling from a height of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters), with the blackness of space and the bright [...]

The shoes are still left outside the cabins to be polished: An eerie trip with the tourists diving two miles to see the Titanic

For 13 years people have been able to drop down to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean in submersibles to see the remains of the Titanic. But now, hundred years on after it sank, these expeditions are coming to close to allow the ship to rest in peace. Here, ROB McCALLUM who works for the deep-sea exploration [...]

World's Smallest Memory Bit Stores Data Using Just 12 Atoms

The world’s smallest magnetic data storage unit is made of just 12 atoms, squeezing an entire byte into just 96 atoms, a significant shrinkage in the world of information storage. It’s not a quantum computer, but it’s a computer storage unit at the quantum scale. By contrast, modern hard [...]