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Sunday, March 4, 2012

The Week in Geek: Otherworldly Earth edition

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Some amazing historical geek on how underwater telephone cables were laid across the San Francisco Bay. How's that for engineering?

IBM researchers in Zurich are first to measure the charge on a single atom, image a single molecule, and now image the distribution of charge in a single molecule. Over achievers.

Why astronomers consider pulsars a gift from the Universe.

Six places on Earth you can go and pretend you are on another planet.

380 million year old fossilized forest unearthed beneath quarry in upstate New York.

The neuroscience of deja vu all over again.

Memory altering drugs may be beside the point as the brain constantly alters memories on its own.

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