Collaborate Disseminate
People have been collecting helmets for thousands of years, with the finest specimens either closely held or having long ago gone to museums … so when the world’s finest private collection sold at Christie’s this week, it rewrote the record books with seven of the top 20 prices of all-time.
Category: Collectibles, Lifestyle
Tags: Museum, Christie’s, Helmet
Continue reading Armour museum’s helmet auction rewrites the record books
How long does it take a team of rocket scientists to remove two screws? When the screws they’re working on are keeping a priceless sample of asteroid safe, it’s about …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 14, 2024
MAD Architects has revealed plans for a new mixed-use development in Foshan, Guangdong province, China. The project, named Nanhai Arts Center, will feature an eye-catching design that’s informed by its lakeside location and is envisioned as a large rip… Continue reading Eye-catching rippling arts center makes waves in China
A fungus that attacked other organisms 407 million years ago has been unearthed among a collection of fossils, making it the oldest of its kind to have ever been found. The new plant pathogen has also been named Potteromyces asteroxylicola, in honor of… Continue reading World’s oldest disease-causing fungus found, named after Beatrix Potter
Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has completed work on its Chengdu Science Fiction Museum in China and, to the firm’s credit, it looks just as extraordinary as the renders promised. The building features an amorphous form that’s envisioned as an expanding n… Continue reading Futuristic sci-fi museum forms a nebulous star cloud in China
The second of three major solar eclipses in a mere six-year period swept across the United States last week. We managed to catch the first one back in 2017, and …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 22, 2023
Scientists have successfully extracted RNA molecules from an extinct species for the first time. The milestone was achieved in the thylacine, a species of carnivorous marsupial that roamed Australia until about a century ago – and may again one day, if… Continue reading First RNA extracted from extinct species may help thylacine resurrection
OPEN Architecture has made a habit of designing extraordinary projects, such as the rocky Chapel of Sound and sundial-like Sun Tower, and this is set to continue with its newly revealed Space Crystal. Likened to an extraterrestrial-like object that’s l… Continue reading “Extraterrestrial” Space Crystal set to land in China
Cleveland, Ohio’s celebrated Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is set to receive an all-new extension courtesy of PAU (Practice for Architecture and Urbanism). The addition will be defined by an eye-catching triangular building that will boost capacity at the s… Continue reading Ohio’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame receives green-roofed encore
ADAT Studio has revealed plans to create a new energy efficient and greenery filled science museum in Rome. Named the Science Forest, the building will feature its galleries and exhibition areas arranged around an interior public park.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading Science Forest museum puts nature at the heart of learning