April 6, 2020
X Development is a very secretive research and development company, originally founded by Google (now a part, like Google, of Alphabet) to work on “moonshots”, which […]
November 10, 2018
In 1826, English gardener and architect Joseph Paxton was appointed head gardener at Chatsworth House, in Derbyshire. He was just 20 when he started working for […]
August 6, 2018
When a company like Google decides to do something -anything at all- it’s bold, it’s big and it’s ambitious. There are no small projects at Google. […]
July 10, 2018
To reduce the risks of climate change on the planet, the 2016 Paris Agreement set a goal, which was keeping the increase in the global average […]
May 23, 2012
Photographing stars is tricky, to say the least. You need long exposures to capture their faint light, but they are permanently in motion, so you also […]
April 28, 2012
Stephen Hawking has said that he does not believe that time travel to the past is possible. If it were, we would now have people from […]
April 21, 2012
If you have ever heard that someone feels lower than whale shit at the bottom of the ocean, you have probably imagined something very visually unattractive […]
March 31, 2012
Peter Thiel is an American businessman, co-founder of PayPal and an early investor of Facebook. As a venture capital investor he has seen his share of […]
March 31, 2012
Entomophagy is the consumption by humans of insects as food. Although you may not know anyone who actually eats insects, and may think it is a […]