Mar 30
Having found a gold lining to the West’s otherwise devastating drought
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Mar 28
After ten years of extremely expensive, slow, and politically messed up construction work–it is a long and sad story of government corruption and incompetence–Budapest, the Hungarian capital, got its fourth metro line today. Despite its ill-fated genesis and controversial usefulness, the Metro 4 is an amazing engineering, architectural, and artistic achievement, a mix of stunning concrete structures and trippy ornamentation. It looks stunning.
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Mar 28
Underground in places nobody likes to look, bacteria are doing terrible things to our sewage pipes. The concrete pipes that carry our waste are literally dissolving away, forcing engineers into a messy, expensive battle against tiny microbes.
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Mar 26
This one goes out to all the city cyclists who have pulled up to the bottom of a steep-ass hill with three words echoing through their head: Oh. Hell. No. The Norwegian city of Trondheim built a special bike-lift that gives folks with wheels a free ride, no pedaling required.
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Mar 24
A quarter-century ago, after the Exxon Valdez’s captain downed one too many drinks and left a third mate in charge, the oil tanker struck a reef and bled 11 million gallons of oil across 1,300 miles of Alaska’s coastline. But the catastrophic oil spills have continued in the US—and we’re still not prepared to handle them.
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Mar 24
Here’s your daily dose of mysterious steel structures direct from Kazakhstan.
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Here’s your daily dose of mysterious steel structures direct from Kazakhstan. NASA’s chief photographer, Bill Ingalls, got up early yesterday to capture this stunning sunrise scene at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. You can see the empty Soyuz launch pad with its support booms and trusses wide open, shortly before the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft was rolled out by train. The launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for March 26th, when it will send a new crew to the International Space Station. [Bill Ingalls/NASA]
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Mar 24
When you flush the toilet, you’re sending a lot of bad stuff into the sewer. But what you might not realize is that you’re flushing away a lot of good stuff, too. That’s why a team of German scientists have developed a method for recovering those valuable particles.
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Mar 20
There’s something about looking at these photographs of Australian salt mines that… I don’t know, they’re like a visual chill pill or something. Photographer Emma Phillips snapped these beautiful shots in the Nullarbor Plain of Western Australia, but they look like a landscape from outer space.
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Mar 20
Continuing our inadvertent Snøhetta theme today, the Norwegian architecture firm has also proposed t
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Continuing our inadvertent Snøhetta theme today, the Norwegian architecture firm has also proposed this fuselage-like metro station for downtown Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The outer skin of the building—a long tube enclosing a station on the city’s Metro-C line—would be surfaced with ceramic tiles "developed in cooperation with local artists." This joins other large-scale rail projects
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Mar 20
If you have ever been to San Francisco, then some part of you—or some former part of you—has almost certainly passed through the city’s Southeast Wastewater Treatment Plant. But, considering how utterly vital it is to the city, the wastewater plant is also very much invisible, tucked away in a neighborhood no tourist would have heard of. Bright and early one recent Saturday morning, Gizmodo went to see what San Francisco’s sewage plant is really like.
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