May 04 2024
In recent years, modern medicine has provided us with everything from new vaccines to protect us from deadly diseases to groundbreaking cancer treatments. It’s provided us with hope on countless occasions — including back in 2011 when doctors unveiled a […]
Plastering your face on billboards across the country might seem like an unorthodox way to find a partner. However, after such a stunt, one bachelor has received over 100 applications from hopeful bachelorettes in a desperate bid to ‘save [him] […]
On Instagram or TikTok, if you’ve seen footwear made of tennis balls or a toasty bread hat with a Carhartt logo, you’ve probably spotted the handiwork of Nicole McLaughlin. Making one-off garments out of everyday products and upcycled streetwear, the […]
Beyond the laptops, tablets and smartphones, the world will see a number of oddball gadgets, including dehumidifying earbuds, smart light bulbs that monitor your sleep and even smart baths technology that lets a bathtub fill itself in 2022. Here’s a […]
After 40 years with NASA and three years as its chief scientist, Jim Green has retired from the agency. Green, who joined NASA in 1980 spent 12 years as the director of the agency’s planetary science division and helped it […]
A team of scientists at a research facility in Italy has developed a robot to help out during natural disasters. The small humanoid robot, called iCub, will fly using a propulsion backpack and will have systems in its palms that […]
A German Shepherd named Tinsley first thought to be a lost dog, successfully led New Hampshire state police to the site of its owner’s rollover crash. Both the vehicle’s occupants were seriously hurt, but thanks to Tinsley’s dogged efforts they […]
With Covid-19 causing delays in construction schedules and project openings, construction has become quite challenging. Regardless, the coming year promises — for now, at least — a slew of hotly anticipated new buildings, from Africa’s tallest skyscraper to a futuristic […]
After nearly four years of construction, China’s longest underwater highway tunnel is now open to vehicle traffic. At a length of 10.79 kilometres (6.65 miles), the Taihu tunnel stretches under Lake Taihu in eastern China’s Jiangsu Province, about 50 kilometres […]
As Tom Stoltman crouched down to pick up the fifth and final Atlas Stone, a 210-kilogram (almost 463 pounds) spherical behemoth —slightly heavier than an upright piano — and lift it up to a platform at shoulder height, he knew […]
Two twins in California ended up being born on different days, months and years thanks to a rare ‘one in two million’ occurrence. Little Aylin Yolanda Trujillo and her brother Alfredo Antonio Trujillo were born 15 minutes apart on New […]
