"Basically worthless unless it's in an airtight container." Man sparks debate after discovering unconventional method for ...

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 ...

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

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] ...

Microsoft’s Project Silica uses an ultrafast femtosecond laser to write data to the glass. The laser creates so-called voxels, which are the 3D versions of pixels. Tech. Entertainment.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.