Oh, and if you want another example of the astronomical ambition of Silica, currently a single one of the project’s quartz glass plates can hold a copy of War and Peace (wait for it) 875,000 times.

Although silica beads are not gems, the porous mineral does come from the ground. ... Glass production uses up another roughly 10 percent. “Recently, [the US has] ...

No one expected these glittering bits among the gray lunar dust back then. The beads, smaller than grains of sand, formed ...

When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the Moon, they expected to find the typical grey rocks and dust that had long been associated with Earth’s closest neighbor. What they didn’t expect to ...

Apollo astronauts discovered orange and black glass beads on the Moon's surface, a surprising find among the gray landscapes. The beads, measuring less than a millimeter (0.04 inches), were ...

Microsoft's Project Silica that uses glass as storage is now promoted as a cloud storage solution Safely store data for up to 10,000 years By Shawn Knight October 17, 2023, 11:02.

Most three-dimensional glass objects are produced via either a molding, blowing or 3D-printing process. Chinese scientists, ... throughout which silica beads were suspended.

Environment Arctic geoengineering project shut down over danger to wildlife. The non-profit Arctic Ice Project was experimenting with using silica beads to slow ice melt in the Arctic, but tests ...

It features Microsoft’s Project Silica, a tough new data storage medium that’s never gonna give you up. Imagine being an explorer, cracking open a 10,000-year-old tomb, uncovering a priceless ...

Microsoft’s futuristic ‘Project Silica’ stores data on glass plates for 10,000 years. 3,500 films or 1.75 million songs can be stored on a single, small glass disk.

Apollo astronauts discovered the moon is covered in tiny orange glass beads. Now we finally know why. Mini ice age was final death blow to Roman Empire, unusual rocks in Iceland suggest ...