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...

Researchers at the Shenzhen Ainear Cornea Engineering Company presented a biologically engineered cornea product that may help millions with corneal blindnes to see.

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

Technion students Eyal Cohen and Tomer Wassermann from the Mechanical Engineering faculty and Matan Orian and Dvir Dukhan of Industrial Engineering and Matan take on the challenge to build a Rube Goldberg machine that lights the Chanukah menorah. Hanukkah is the holiday of miracles and here is anoth...

How the Sagrada Família in Barcelona, Spain, will look once completed. n 1882, construction of Sagrada Família started under architect Francisco de Paula del Villar. In 1883, when Villar resigned Gaudí took over as chief architect, transforming the project with his architectural and engineering sty

Pump Up the Bass to Douse a Blaze: Mason Students' Invention Fights Fires. Sound-blasting fire extinguisher prototypes have been developed by George Mason University Electrical and Computer Engineering students Viet Tran and Seth Robertson in Seattle, Washington. The fire extinguisher uses low-freq...

Over the next four years, Saudi Arabia is set to spend a whopping $500 billion dollars to build a futuristic city, 17 times bigger than London and 33 times bigger than New York City. The goal is to build an innovation hub and tourist destination to lead the world in smart city technology and clean e

Fire Island, three miles off the shore of New York's Long Island, has long been a haven for the Northeast's LGBTQ community. The Pines were developed in the 1950s, making the enclave one of the youngest on the island. In the '60s, The Pines quickly went from a clothing-optional beach with a few coas...

The blueprint even extends to Mudurnu in north-western Turkey - although the strange cluster of Gothic "castles" found on the outskirts of this unheralded town, 180 miles south-east of Istanbul, has far more in common with Walt Disney's whimsical vision than the masterpieces of European construction...

Theater legend John Kander, who co-wrote with Fred Ebb such classic musicals as "Cabaret" and "Chicago," has a new musical opening on Broadway. "New York, New York," adapted from the 1977 film, features never-before-heard songs by Kander & Ebb, and new songs by Kander and "Hamilton" creator Lin-Manu...