Editorial Discoveries
484 articles
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This Hybrid Airship Is Longer Than a Boeing 747
Airlander 10 combines buoyant lift, aerodynamic lift and vectored thrust in a vast soft-sided aircraft intended for long-endurance missions and unusual passenger experiences. — via hybridairvehicles.com
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A Giant Silver Sphere Appears to Plug Into This Taipei Theatre
OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center combines three theatres around a central cube, with the spherical Globe Playhouse protruding from one side like an enormous mechanical component. — via oma.com
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The World’s Largest Aircraft by Wingspan Carries Other Vehicles Into the Sky
Stratolaunch’s twin-fuselage Roc uses an enormous wing to carry test vehicles beneath its centre section. The aircraft’s proportions are difficult to understand until people or normal planes appear beside it. — via stratolaunch.com
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Delhi Has a House of Worship Shaped Like a Giant Opening Lotus
The Lotus Temple uses repeated white marble petals to create a nine-sided sacred building that looks almost weightless despite its scale. — via bahaihouseofworship.in
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Airbus Built an Aircraft Shaped Like a Giant Flying Whale
BelugaXL expands the oversized cargo-aircraft idea into a bulbous fuselage designed to carry large aircraft sections between manufacturing sites. — via airbus.com
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NASA Built a Needle-Nosed Supersonic Jet to Make Sonic Booms Quieter
The X-59 is designed to test whether a shaped aircraft can reduce the disruptive sonic boom associated with supersonic flight over land. — via nasa.gov
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For Part of the Year, This Colombian River Turns Red, Yellow and Green
Caño Cristales becomes famous for vivid seasonal colour produced by aquatic plants across clear water and rock formations, earning it the nickname 'river of five colours'. — via colombia.travel
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This Countertop Machine Turns Food Scraps Into a Much Smaller Dry Material
Lomi uses heat, grinding and controlled cycles to reduce household food waste into a dry output with far less volume and smell. — via lomi.com
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This Tiny Smart Lock Can Retrofit Onto the Inside of a Door
Nuki’s compact smart-lock system is designed to automate an existing door lock from the interior, preserving the external key cylinder while adding app and automation control. — via nuki.io
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This Kitchen Bin Dries and Shrinks Food Scraps Instead of Leaving Them to Rot
Mill’s appliance dries and grinds food scraps, reducing volume and odour while creating a dry material that is easier to handle than ordinary wet waste. — via mill.com
