Behold, the beating heart of a time machine! Or “clock”, as most people call them, but this one is nothing like your grandfather’s. This super-accurate timekeeper is an optical atomic clock built by the UK’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and its tick is governed by a single ion of the element strontium. More »
This amazing image shows 90 percent of Mars’s surface, imaged in ultra-high detail by the stereo camera aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express. More »
Though your old dial-up modem (hopefully) now sits in a junk yard somewhere, its beeps and whistles surely remain etched into your brain. With this massive image, Oona Räisänen decided to explain every single note your modem used to make—and it’s fascinating. More »
The scene: a woman goes to buy a cake for, oh, let’s say her cat Whiskers’s birthday. She decides to put a photo of Whiskers’s face on top of the cake because oh isn’t that fun and also she’s a very lonely woman. She hands the baker a USB drive and asks that she use the photo. The baker smiles and nods because English is her second language and because this customer asking for a flash drive on a cake is clearly insane and should be dealt with accordingly. The result, as you can see, is glorious. More »
Here’s the secret door to Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. Or its toilet pipe. Or just an awesome photo of an ice column in a tunnel carved in the rock, near Lake Tahoe. In any case, a beautiful image. [Full Frame Collective—Thanks Attila Nagy!] More »
A horrible thing has happened today in China’s Henan Province. A truck loaded to the gills with fireworks—intended for the country’s upcoming Lunar New Year celebration—fired off its wares on a busy highway, leading to six minutes of the most brightly lit, celebratory destruction in recent memory. More »
Every year, the International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge seeks to find the most visually striking scientific art and design. It’s just announced the 2012 winners—and there are some amazing sights to be seen. More »
After heavy rains, the Limpopo river in southern Mozambique has burst its banks, causing floods that have driven more than 150,000 people from their homes and killed at least 38, according to a UN official on Tuesday. More »
Because the Internet has such a short memory and moves at such a breakneck pace, it’s hard to remember what happened on it in any given year. Like was Rebecca Black a 2012 thing or a 2011 thing? (Hint: it was 2011) But if you consider yourself an advanced Internetter, you should have no problem figuring out the 20 things that happened in 2012 that are depicted in this image. Right? More »
Google’s a massive fan of celebrating Android through the medium of sculpture. Its latest, though, is a surprisingly tasteful vision in shiny, shiny chrome, strapped to the side of one of Google’s Mountain View buildings. More »
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