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Created in New York by Jewish immigrants, the first comic book superheroes were mythic saviors who could combat the Nazi threat. They speak to the dark politics of our times. By Art Spiegelman – Captain America lives on … The Avengers (2012) Photograph: …
By Loz Blain – At speeds over 100 mph, Franky Zapata has become the first person to cross the English Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard Zapata – After ending up in the water on his first attempt, flying Frenchman Franky Zapata has now successfully …
By Nick Lavars – The VoloCity aircraft, as it is now known, has been designed to meet the certification standards laid out by the European Aviation Safety Agency. – Little by little, Volocopter has continued to refine the design of its flying taxi …
Sao Paulo plunged into darkness after forest fire smoke filled the sky. By Sarah Sloat – Recently thousands of people took to Twitter to share the hashtag #PrayforAmazonia. The viral movement came as the skies above Sao Paulo blackened with the smoke from …
With cities facing both rapid growth and radical, permanent climate change, urban authorities are faced with an increasingly vulnerable population Cooling goo sidewalks and other strange new weapons in the war on urban heat Cities is supported by About this content By Oliver …
They could have been the “Adam and Eve of chemical evolution.” By Yasmin Tayag – Hydrogen cyanide is best known as a poison, historically deployed as a murder weapon in gas chambers and by federal executioners. But much further back in Earth’s past, …
The eerie silence above may tell us something ominous about the future of our own civilization. By Thomas Moynihan – It is 1950 and a group of scientists are walking to lunch against the majestic backdrop of the Rocky Mountains. They are about …
By Sarah Hughes – The TV series may have reached its conclusion, but with two books to finish as well as a host of spinoff projects, the writer of the novel series that spawned it is busier than ever. Sun 18 Aug 2019 …
By Michael Irving – An artist’s impression of a collision between Jupiter and a large, ancient planetoid that would have disrupted its core. (Credit: K. Suda & Y. Akimoto/Mabuchi Design Office/Astrobiology Center, Japan). Jupiter is a gigantic ball of churning gas clouds, and …
Adversarial Fashion garments are covered in license plates, aimed at bamboozling a device’s databases. By Alex Hern in Las Vegas @alexhern – An Adversarial Fashion dress, modeled by its designer, Kate Rose. Photograph: Kate Rose. Automatic license plate readers, which use networked surveillance …
