Ten bedrooms with wardrobes that are disguised as walls
This lookbook rounds up 10 bedrooms where architects have designed discreet built-in wardrobes to conceal clothing and clutter, creating the illusion of a seamless wall. Read more This lookbook rounds up 10 bedrooms where architects have des.....»»
Ancient handprints on cave walls in Spain found to include children"s hands
A trio of researchers from Universidad de Cantabria and the University of Cambridge has found evidence suggesting that up to a quarter of all ancient handprints found on cave walls in Spain were made using children's hands. In their paper published i.....»»
Scientists uncover simple strategies for keeping foams on walls
Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have uncovered a unique mechanism by which foams on walls drain and slip over time. They showed how a foam can lose liquid via "pinch-off," like droplets from a faucet, finding that the amount of liquid.....»»
What Is A Pony Wall? | Things To Know
You may have come across the term “pony wall” or “half wall” while going through architecture magazines and might have wondered what they are. Pony walls were ubiquitous during the 1960s as an effective and convenient way of creating divisi.....»»
Researchers explore the factors that shaped the massive Cauca River canyon in the Tropical Andes
With steep walls and deep valleys, the Grand Canyon in the western United States or the massive gorges that saw through the margins of the Tibetan Plateau are some of the most awesome and spectacular landforms on the planet. But have you ever wondere.....»»
Facebook takes the "news" out of News Feed, figuratively speaking
When Facebook launched in 2004, it was essentially a directory of profile pages. Users would navigate from page to page to check out what was new on the Walls of their friends. Everything changed in September 2006 with the introduction of the News Fe.....»»
The US Southwest is hitting megadrought status
A very dry 2021 pushed the last two decades into first place. Enlarge / The white areas on the walls near Lake Mead provide an indication of how much its waters have dropped. (credit: Lingqi Xie) About half of the contiguous U.....»»
41 Different Types of Wallpaper Options
Looking to revamp your room walls? Putting up an attractive and durable wallpaper may be what you need. That said, coating the wall with paint may not always lend the desired look and appeal. On the other hand, wallpaper can accentuate the room with.....»»
Scientists create strange quantum "domain walls" in laboratory
University of Chicago scientists have been able to create a new kind of quantum object at will in the laboratory: "domain walls.".....»»
New plant-derived composite is tough as bone and hard as aluminum
The strongest part of a tree lies not in its trunk or its sprawling roots, but in the walls of its microscopic cells......»»
Shaken by fracking quakes, Texas is forced to act
"You get used to it. The walls shake," says Sam, a resident of Midland, a town in west Texas where hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas—known as "fracking"—is causing more and more earthquakes......»»
Hard barriers and soft power: Study assesses outsider perceptions of border walls
When it comes to being divisive, it doesn't get more literal than a wall. Walls exist as a means of separation, creating a sense of security by keeping something—or more typically someone—out. And whether it's separating Americans and Mexicans, I.....»»
Alan Tudyk’s awkward alien is humanity’s only hope in Resident Alien S2 trailer
Humanity is probably screwed. Alan Tudyk is back as an alien who crash-lands on Earth in the second season of SYFY's Resident Alien. An alien (Alan Tudyk) disguised as a small-town doctor must figure out how to rescue his new human friend.....»»
Newly discovered cave snail with spiky teeth
Finding transparent snails with a length of only a few millimeters on muddy cave walls is no easy feat. "Nevertheless, we succeeded in collecting 57 gastropod populations from various caves in northern Spain. We have now studied them, both in terms o.....»»
Vulnerable to climate change, New York constructs seawall
After major storms highlighted New York's weaknesses in the face of climate change, the city is erecting a $1.45-billion system of walls and floodgates to protect it from rising sea levels......»»
NFT Art Collectors Are Playing a Risky Game—And Winning
In Miami, the next generation of art collection showed its colors Behind the high white walls of a nondescript single-story building in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood, past the velvet ropes and ticket-checkers, and through a hallway f.....»»
Buima develops battery module and energy storage applications
Buima Group has invested in Joules Miles to enter into the battery module field. Combined with their building materials foundation, Buima plans to develop a new application category of energy storage walls......»»
Shaping up nicely: Adjusting the plasma edge can improve the performance of a star on Earth
While trying out a new device that injects powder to clean up the walls of the world's largest stellarator, a twisty fusion device known as Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) in Greifswald, Germany, scientists were pleased to find that the bits of atoms confined.....»»
Breaking down cancer’s defenses
Researchers have developed a new probiotic bacteria designed to break down solid cancer cell walls and make other therapies more effective......»»
Tempera painting probed on the molecular scale
In contrast to the oil painting technique that supplanted it at the end of the 15th century, tempera painting, practiced on wood panels, walls or canvas has received little attention on the physico-chemical scale. This painting technique, which has b.....»»
Urban leopards of Korea"s past could hold clues to species survival
Amur leopards were able to coexist with people within the city walls of Seoul, South Korea, in the 19th century, reports a study led by a UCL and ZSL researcher......»»