Don’t try to say this one too fast but this plastic technically named: polyethylenedioxythiophene can hold memory in a very small package. US researchers have found that this material could let them pack a gigabyte of data into a sugar cube-sized device. The researchers predict they’ll have this in working devices within a few years.

Am I the only one that articles like this scare the hell out of? Something about the prospect of an asteroid actually, really, plausibly colliding with earth like had reportedly wiped out the dinosaurs millions of years ago seems more of a threat than nuclear war to me. It is one-tenth the size of the asteroid thought by some to have wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported. The chance of it actually striking Earth is one in 909,000. 1 in 909,000 in Keno terms is about the same as picking 10 out of 11 numbers (not an easy feat). I should have never seen that movie Armageddon. Update: artist’s rendering here