In the premiere of our ReForm series, we explore the frontier of the 3D face- and body scanning technology used to create digital doubles for films, video games, and holograms. We meet some of the scanned humans, their avatars, and get to understand the challenges the Institute For Creative Technolo...

The Shed's concept is simple: It's the 120-foot tall building that moves. This idea is both its architectural hallmark and its metaphor for the future of culture. Opening on April 5th, New York City's half-billion dollar, hybrid museum-meets-performance space can shapeshift to double its indoor peri...

Dan Barasch and James Ramsey have a crazy plan—to create a park, filled with greenery, underneath New York City. The two are developing the Lowline, an underground greenspace the size of a football field. They're building it in a trolley terminal abandoned in 1948, using technology that harvests sun

Primitive Technology: Wood Ash Cement - Creating wood ash cement from scratch

In December 2022, California scientists achieved a major breakthrough -- a nuclear fusion reaction that produced more energy than was used to create it. Scientists have done it again and this time their results produced even more energy. Professor Peter Hosemann, chair of nuclear and mechanical eng...

Can LaGuardia really be turned around? LaGuardia Airport renovation. Featured snippet from the webThe total $8 billion transformation of LaGuardia Airport makes it is the first new major airport built in the United States in the last 25 years. Delta's brand new Terminal C opened to passengers on ...

An invention for a rapid fix of potholes in the streets. An invention that will speed the process of repairs, especially in citiers and roads where the extreme climate makes a nightmare driving.

Congress has asked the Federal Aviation Administration to find a safe way to expand the use of drones in the U.S.

Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Trailer #1 (2017): Austrian actress Hedy Lamarr fled an oppressive marriage to create a name for herself as one of Hollywood's top leading ladies in the 1940s. Behind the glamour and sex appeal, though, was a talented and inquisitive inventor who created a radio syst...

Hong Kong's MTR just got a whole lot bigger. The Shatin-Central Link is one of the important railway projects in Hong Kong, and forming two critical railway corridors-Tuen Ma Line and the East Rail Line Extension connecting the Fourth Harbour Crossing Railway. The new railways might bring convenien...