Someone decided to enter a Radiohead remix contest using a comgination of the strangest musical instruments ever -- old scanners, hard drives, dot matrix printers and ancient computers!

Don't be too spooked by the computer at the beginning - the better parts come to those who are patient.

Here's another link with more videos.

Filed under: music, ancient hardware, dot matrix, scanner, and hard drives

Researchers were amazed to find two billion year old unaltered rocks on the ocean floor. The rocks' age was precisely confirmed due to presence of isotopes of osmium.

"I just about fell off my chair. We can't exaggerate how important these rocks are -- they're a window into that deep part of earth."

The picture is of a section of these rocks.

Filed under: earth, rocks, ancient, and two billion years