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Following a report at the start of this year, more details have been revealed on what is arguably the world's most ambitious architecture project: the mind-bogglingly tall JEC Tower, which is currently rising in Saudi Arabia.Continue ReadingCategory: Architecture, TechnologyTags: Building and Construction,

You may be sitting on – so to speak – a very valuable asset that scientists would love to get their hands on: your poop. As well as blood, plasma and organs, you can now donate fecal samples to stool banks for research and use in transplants.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: University of New South Wales,

Peak wildfire season may be over in California, but home-threatening fires remain a year-round threat in many areas, and this innovative three-part kit offers homeowners some new and easy ways to give houses a fighting chance.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Fire, Fire-Proof Coatings

On the northern edge of Ukraine, inside the 30-km (19-mile) exclusion zone surrounding the abandoned Chornobyl (commonly known as Chernobyl) nuclear plant, thousands of animals now roam freely through forests, abandoned towns and decaying industrial estates. Among them are the stray dogs – around 900 descendants of the pets left behind, now living in a landscape shaped by the world’s worst nuclear disaster.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, Science

I’ve been an enthusiast cook for 40 years, and I have gathered some nice knives and cookware. But I’ve never much cared what stove I was using – beyond a general preference for gas or induction.Continue ReadingCategory: Around The Home, LifestyleTags: Cooking, Kitchen,

It’s been a productive year for Carlo Ratti Associati, an Italian architectural firm known for blending man-made construction with natural environments. The company recently unveiled a sophisticated mountain shelter that will soon find its permanent location in the Italian Alps. Now, CRA has collaborated with American creative studio Höweler + Yoon and Italian steel construction company Cimolai on a new experiment. The result of their five-month effort is a 400-square-meter (4,306-sq-ft) floating plaza – AquaPraça.

Earth's earliest life left behind very few chemical traces. Fragile remains, like ancient cells and microbial mats, were buried, squeezed, heated, and broken apart by the planet's shifting crust before reappearing at the surface. These drastic changes erased most traces of how life began and evolved.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology,

Nobody wants harmful bacteria colonizing the surfaces of objects such as medical implants, yet we also don't want them building up a resistance to antibiotics. Well, help may be on the way, in the form of tiny metal structures that kill the microbes by poking holes in them.Continue ReadingCategory: ScienceTags: metal-organic frameworks, Ch

Industrial pipes carrying water or chemicals invariably get gunked up as deposits accumulate on their internal surfaces. That slows flow, and slowly damages the equipment, leading to the need for periodic maintenance and higher operational costs.Continue ReadingCategory: Materials,

We've recently seen a bunch of E Ink smartphones released for eye-friendly productivity on the go. But what if you don't want to give up your handset, yet would like an ePaper assistant on tap? That's where the Reetle SmartInk I comes in.Continue ReadingCategory: Mobile Technology, Consumer Tech, TechnologyTags: