It’s a full-color three-dimensional world rendered with ASCII art and playable in your browser. For the time being, the game exists as an experiment. There’s no storyline or goals other than ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

While we wouldn’t want to document a computer motherboard with ASCII schematics, it’s great for a quick-and-dirty circuit diagrams. Not exactly schematics, but [Duckman] has some Arduino ...

The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

To that end, The Earth Archive wants to use lidar to scan Earth’s surface and generate maps that can be used for scientific pursuits in the future. Recently, lidar-equipped planes uncovered ...

A Nigerian doctor with a passion for art broke a Guinness World Record with a 10,814.5-square-foot drawing celebrating the ...

And if you want to understand precisely how sea-levels will rise in different parts of the world, good ocean-floor maps are a must. Much of the data that's been imported into the GEBCO grid ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered ...

It sounds like something out of a science-fiction movie. For the past couple of weeks, Earth's orbit has been home to a "mini-moon" the size of a city bus. The celestial object is more than just a ...

We can then store this code in the computer using binary ones and zeros. ASCII stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. ASCII code allows computers to understand how to ...