Collaborate Disseminate
A 280-million-year-old fossil from the Italian Alps is pretty much just black paint in the lizard-shaped grooves of a rock. So say researchers who examined the specimen and laid to rest questions that have long puzzled paleontologists.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Famous lizard fossil exposed as a forgery
The early days of home computing were quite a jungle of different standards and convoluted solutions to make one piece of hardware work on as many different platforms as possible. …read more Continue reading How Intel Gave Us The PCI Bus While Burying VESA’s VL-Bus
Defending an area against incoming missiles is a difficult task. Missiles are incredibly fast and present a small target. Assuming you know they’re coming, you have to be able to …read more Continue reading Sprint: The Mach 10 Magic Missile That Wasn’t Magic Enough
In the year 79 CE, a massive cloud of volcanic ash rained down on the Roman city of Herculaneum after an eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Along with the city of …read more Continue reading Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize Awarded And 2024’s New Challenge
As I walked into the huge high bay that was to be my part-time office for the next couple of years, I was greeted by all manner of abandoned equipment …read more Continue reading Arctic Adventures with a Data General Nova II — The Equipment
When the Grumman F-14 Tomcat first flew in 1970, it was a marvel. With its variable-sweep wing, twin tail, and sleek lines, it quickly became one of the most iconic …read more Continue reading The World’s First Microprocessor: F-14 Central Air Data Computer
If you are designing a building and need to move many people up or down, you probably will at least consider an escalator. In fact, if you visit most large …read more Continue reading Tech in Plain Sight: Escalators
Much about archaeology can be described as trying to figure out the context in which objects and constructions should be interpreted. A good example of this are the metal dodecahedrons …read more Continue reading Roman Dodecahedrons: A Mystifying Archaeological Find
With many words which are commonly used in everyday vocabulary, we are certain that we have a solid grasp of what they do and do not mean, but is this …read more Continue reading Robot: You Keep Using That Word But It Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
It’s one of the strangest unsolved cases, and even though the FBI closed their investigation back in 2016, this may be the year it cracks wide open. On November 24, …read more Continue reading DB Cooper Case Could Close Soon Thanks To Particle Evidence