WEIRD FACTS
Described by the Prime Minister of Dubai as the “world’s most beautiful building,” the Museum of the Future is certainly one of the most striking projects we’ve seen in a while. Museum of the Future View 10 Images – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar …
Shutterstock – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Chief Environmental Scientist, EPA Victoria; Honorary Professor, Macquarie University And Gabriel Filippelli, Chancellor’s Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Indiana University Environmental Resilience Institute, IUPUI (Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis) – Published: 2022 Mar 15 – You …
A pilot plant near the Salton Sea in California pairs lithium extraction with geothermal energy production. Michael McKibben – By Bryant Jones, Ph.D. Candidate of Energy Policy, Boise State University And Michael McKibben, Research Professor of Geology, University of California, Riverside – Published: …
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Svein-Magne Tunli – tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA – By David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Published: 2022 Mar 18 – On …
By Curt Devine, Casey Tolan and Majlie de Puy Kamp, CNN Updated 2022 Mar 17 – (CNN) The sprawling billion-dollar palace that sits on a hilltop overlooking the Black Sea is seen by some Kremlin critics as the ultimate emblem of Russian President …
St. Brigid of Kildare’s shrine in Faughart, County Louth, Ireland. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/ Hulton Archive via Getty Images – By Lisa Bitel, Professor of History & Religion, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Published: 2022 Mar 11 – On March 17, …
An autonomous underwater vehicle is recovered after completing a seafloor mapping mission in the Arctic Ocean. The remotely operated vehicle (foreground) is used to conduct visual surveys of the newly mapped seafloor. – By Katie Hunt, CNN Updated 2022 Mar 14 – Sign …
Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia’s most respected architects. BIG – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar 15 – The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of …
The Pontos kayak is presently on Indiegogo. Pontos – By Ben Coxworth 2022 Mar 15 – Kayaks have many great qualities, but they’re typically not something you can store in a closet or carry in a backpack. That’s why we’ve been seeing an increasing …
It is hoped discovery of medieval trading town Ravenser Odd can teach people about perils of climate crisis. Ravenser Odd, thought to have been located near Spurn Point in the Humber estuary, was destroyed in 1362. Photograph: Mr. Nut/Alamy – By Mark Brown …