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Urban Explorer Finds The Sad Remains Of The Soviet Space Shuttle Program

By Gavel Markowski / June 30, 2015 / Comments Off on Urban Explorer Finds The Sad Remains Of The Soviet Space Shuttle Program

Ralph Mirebs, an urban explorer and photographer in Russia, has revealed extraordinary photos of Soviet space shuttle prototypes gathering dust in an abandoned hangar in Kazakhstan. The abandoned hangar is located at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, which is still in operation today (with the close of NASA’s shuttle program, Russian Soyuz shuttles are the […]

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Comic Con – A Weekend of (Plastic) Swords and (Branded) Sorcery

By Gavel Markowski / June 29, 2015 / Comments Off on Comic Con – A Weekend of (Plastic) Swords and (Branded) Sorcery

Oz Comic Con was held this weekend in Melbourne at MCEC, on Saturday and Sunday, an event that typically attracts tens of thousands of people who love comics, pop culture, films and dressing up. Although nowhere on the scale as the USA’s San Diego Comic Con, guests this year included Jason Momoa (Khal Drogo: Game of […]

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Synthetic fossils could make it possible to store data on DNA for millions of years

By Gavel Markowski / June 26, 2015 / Comments Off on Synthetic fossils could make it possible to store data on DNA for millions of years

Scientists have created synthetic fossils, which can store data by encoding it in DNA: DNA has huge potential as a data storage medium, with just one gram able to hold nearly half a zettabyte (almost 500 billion gigabytes) of data. Given that DNA fragments recovered from fossilized boneshave been used to reconstruct the genome of […]

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