imaging

Here they view the electron cloud of an atom in unprecedented detail, including the first two orbital types: sphere and butt Xerox. So far so good. But I thought these were "probability clouds", i.e. just a mathematical definition of the satistical probability an electron would be at each...

I somewhat recently had a brain MRI, and although there were no abnormalities, I'd like a copy of the scan, for educational and entertainment purposes (how cool is it to show my brain to other people?). Is the clinic that scanned me required to send me a copy upon request? How large would such a...

It used to be with Ghost that you could just boot off the CD and copy from one hard drive to another; a complete bit-to-bit copy, with partitioning as appropriate if the destination drive was larger. As our old Ghost disk couldn't cope with SATA, I bought the latest version. It does way more...

From the redoubtable Fark.com: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002284845_texts23.html The technology is apparently allowing researchers to read previously-undecipherable bits and fragments of manuscripts and such, including Sophocles and some "non-Canonical" gospels...