World’s First Movable City Powers Up in Antarctica
How do you turn a tiny science-city at the far end of the earth into a flexible biosphere capable of skating around vast fields of ice?
How do you turn a tiny science-city at the far end of the earth into a flexible biosphere capable of skating around vast fields of ice?
What might the kid in the pool on the iconic cover of Nirvana’s album Nevermind look like all grown up? How about 11-time Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte?
You’d think the records would have to do with a figure like “50 million” — the number of cosmic rays an NASA science ballon drifting over Antarctica recently intercepted — but it actually involves a pair of flight duration records.
What would you call an amusement park located in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the city where U.S. Special Forces finally tracked down Osama bin Laden? Bin Laden–land? Jihadi World? Al-Qaeda Adventure City?
A 1954 Corvette Roadster bricked away like the victim in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” and sprung decades later bid up to $100,000 but ultimately failed to sell at auction last weekend.
The ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ author’s forthcoming ‘My Brother’s Book’ is an elegiac tale inspired by the death of his brother an Jack in 1995
We are so living in the future.
Racism is sadly alive and well in the world, but in a LEGO Star Wars toy set?
Careless Lone Star state dog owners, you’re on notice: Your pooch’s little front lawn “accident” could come back to haunt you if you don’t clean it up.
If New Zealand businessman Gareth Morgan has his druthers, it could all be over for Fluffy and pals: The economist and environmental proponent wants to see his country rid of pets that pose a danger to native birds — namely cats.
The most well-known portrait of a woman in the world is over the moon — literally — after NASA managed to beam an image of the Mona Lisa directly to a satellite orbiting the lunar body.
It’s poised to be a colossal event: over 100 parade horses, miles of electric cable, at least 50,000 volunteers, hundreds of thousands of free tickets — and at least one limo bearing the slogan “taxation without representation.”