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The future world's tallest building has passed a major construction milestone. Saudi Arabia's JEC Tower has now reached 102 floors and is rapidly progressing toward its planned height of more than 1 km (0.62 miles).Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, EngineeringTags: Building and Construction,

Circumcision may soon be fully reversible. That’s the goal of Foregen, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the first viable bio-engineered foreskin using advanced tissue engineering.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical Devices, Medical Innovations, Body and MindTags:

The last time we checked out Poland's Mobi House we were introduced to a two-bedroom tiny house with a nifty rooftop terrace. Now we're taking a closer look at an evolution of the Sunrise series called the Chocolate, which is dark on the outside and features a tasty light/dark filling.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags:

We're a step closer to understanding how energy is spread across the Universe, with the most detailed map of intergalactic magnetism ever produced. It's more than five times larger than all earlier studies combined.Continue ReadingCategory: Astronomy, ScienceTags: CSIRO,

Soldiers may soon be doing a bit less pack hauling as the US Department of Defense taps American Rheinmetall and Harbinger to develop a new generation of stealthy, inexpensive, and expendable robotic trucks designed to carry cargo to the battlefield.Continue ReadingCategory: Military, EngineeringTags: Rheinmetall Defence,

For nearly 200 years, biologists felt they had a pretty good grasp of the nudibranch genus Thecacera. Consisting of six known species found in marine habitats around the world, these shell-less molluscs seemed as small as small could be, ranging from around half an inch to an inch long.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags:

Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, Holly Seale, & Md Saiful Islam, UNSW Sydney/ The ConversationContinue ReadingCategory: Infectious Diseases, Illnesses and conditions, Body and MindTags: Ebola, Africa,

Sure, space travel sounds exciting, but space travelers are still workers – workers who could ordinarily go to restaurants for lunch or go home for dinner. And while the dining habits of cosmonauts, astronauts, taikonauts, and other void-venturers might seem trivial to us Earth-bound folks who’ll never get to traipse among the stars, space travelers do face serious complications from their truly risky missions in which they sacrifice days, months, or even years away from family, friends, and Earth to expand our knowledge and prepare a multiplanetary future for humanity.Continue ReadingCate

One week the world gets shown a glimpse of the future at the launch of the Luce – the first state-of-the-art electric Ferrari – then the next week we get the ultimate retro car, a monstrous five-liter 18-mpg V8 muscle car.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: AC Cars,

This extra-wide tiny house uses its generous dimensions to create a spacious interior that includes two bedrooms, a practical living area, and some unusually premium touches – as well as a storage-integrated staircase unlike any other we've seen.Continue ReadingCategory: Tiny Houses, OutdoorsTags: