Nuclear Submarines are built around stealth and speed. In games of underwater cat and mouse that these subs often play, the sub that generates the least amount of noise has the greatest advantage. It is so important in fact that usually a cover is placed over the propeller systems of these submarines when [...]

Check out this amazing shot of lighting striking twice at a Nippon Jet soon after take off in Osaka, Japan. The plan remains unharmed after the strikes.
The Aluminum skin of the plane causes the electricity to flow around the plane and continue toward the ground. It has be many many years [...]

Welcome to It Came From the Web or icftw for short. Icftw aims to cover Unusual news, science and tech stories. Plus a good dose of general geekery thrown in to the mix. We decided to create icftw because we would often would see cool and unusual stories scattered all over the web. It became [...]

Just when you thought it might be safe to start thinking about picking a HD optical format, China decides to toss another one into the ring.

The Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center at Tsinghua University in Beijing made the announcement last week, cleverly calling the format CH-DVD. The Center also established the China High Definition [...]