Researchers at Texas A&M University have shaped a soft gel that keeps common hydrated salts from leaking so a building can soak up daytime warmth and let it out again after the sun sets. Salt hydrates already hold a large amount of heat for their size because they change from solid crystals to liquid and […]
An American couple in Greece died after a building collapsed, following an explosion on Friday, officials said. Four other people were missing, including an elderly British man and a Greek woman who shared an apartment, after the explosion in Athens’ historic Plaka district, below the Acropolis monument. The American man and woman had been staying […]
Luke Creatives spent more than eight months on a soda machine that listens to a spoken request and mixes a drink from a bank of concentrated flavors. Ordinary fountain buttons give you one listed option. This cabinet aims at anything you can say out loud, from strawberry lemonade to a summer night, and it draws […]
A building housing displaced Palestinian families collapsed in Gaza City on Wednesday, killing at least 20 people, most of them women and children, according to local health officials. The multistory structure was heavily damaged during the Israel-Hamas war and there had been warnings about its safety. The building was housing about six displaced families when […]
The remains of a woman murdered nearly a century ago and buried beneath a building have finally been identified thanks to modern forensic testing. The woman was identified as Mary McLeod Moffat (née Davidson), a Scottish national who immigrated to Canada with her family in 1913, according to police and the laboratory that performed the […]