The scale of the Universe

Ever wondered how big is an ant as compared to a red blood cell? This and many other answers lie in this beautiful and interesting flash game. It is not really a game, but an adventure into the secrets of the Universe. The music is peaceful and lovely, but the game is much more than that. Beautiful pictures combined with a great concept form an interactive way of enriching people's knowledge.

+ great concept
+ interesting facts
+ science made fun

- some drawings are not excellent, but they're ok...

Play it on NewGrounds

Evolution of music storage devices

Here is a very interesting chart showing off how we got from the Wax Cylinder (yes, people recorded music on wax cylinders!) to the 120 Gb iPod. In the chart you can see a stylized image of the device and how many minutes can be recorded on it. As an extra, you'll get to find out how many CDs can fit into your iPod and you'll also see that your 2TB Hard Drive can hold as much music as 17 120Gb iPods!

Read more and see a bigger chart on Gizmodo

ProFORMA

The most amazing things always come from Cambridge. Qi Pan, the winer of ISMAR 2009 Best Demo Prize has created ProFORMA, a soft that turns a simple camera into a magician. The program can track an object and then recreate it almost perfectly in 3D. By rotating the object in front of the camera it creates the complete 3D model. It sounds so awsome and, from what I see, it really is.

Read more on the official Cambridge page

First man-made black hole

Two Chinese scientists, Tie Jun Cui and Qiang Cheng, from the Southeast University in Nanjing have created the first black hole for microwave frequencies. This device absorbs light rather than reflecting it, just like a normal black hole. It is made up of 60 annular strips of the same material used for invisibility cloaks and it could be utilized in harvesting solar energy in places with dim light.

Read more on NewScientist