A five-story school built in Shanghai in 1935 stood in the way of a new office complex, so engineers dug underneath it and fitted 198…
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Used coffee grounds were charred at 350 degrees Celsius until they became a charcoal-like biochar
Sep 5, 2026
On September 11, 2018, a Dutch city opened a 30-meter bike path built from hollow prefabricated modules containing the recycled equivalent…
Sep 5, 2026
In 1945, Raytheon engineer Percy Spencer noticed a candy bar melting in his pocket while he worked near a radar magnetron
Sep 4, 2026
A 14-year-old farm boy in Idaho came up with the idea for television in 1921 by imagining lines the way he ploughed a field, then sketched…
Sep 2, 2026
Diamond was classed as non-piezoelectric for more than a century—but HKU researchers have now bent ultrathin polycrystalline diamond…
Sep 1, 2026
At 458 metres long and drawing nearly 25 metres of water when loaded, Seawise Giant was too enormous for the Suez and Panama canals—or even…
Sep 1, 2026
A 14-year-old in Kerala sketched a washing machine around a bicycle chain because the river was costing her her homework hours
By Brendan Brown · Aug 31, 2026
Meta is reportedly testing robots inside its data centres that can swap networking cables and restart servers—and one worker estimates a…
Aug 31, 2026
Private AI investment in the United States reached $285.9 billion in 2025—23 times China’s $12.4 billion—yet by March 2026, the countries’…
Aug 30, 2026
University of Tokyo researchers dried, powdered and heat-pressed food scraps including banana peels, orange rinds and cabbage leaves into…
Aug 30, 2026
Dario Amodei’s thought experiment for 2027
Aug 30, 2026