Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   The organization that operates the world’s largest particle physics laboratory has opened a facility for scientific education and outreach, composed of several blocks pierced by a raised walkway.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Switzerland   As part of its mission to engage the public in science, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (known by its French acronym, CERN) is launching the Science Gateway, a new facility for scientific education and outreach. The purpose of the proj

Woods Bagot   Spain   An intelligent facade reveals an interior atrium and wraps a hybrid structure of concrete in the labs (for longer spans) and wood in the workspaces (adding warmth), rotated 45º to mitigate the difference between building and parking...

Pich architects Felipe Pich-Aguilera Estudi 2BMFG   Spain   The building is conceived as a materials testing lab, with lightweight, low impact recoverable components that are assembled dry. The laboratories and offices are arranged around a bioclimatic atrium free of intermediate supports or drainpipes...

IDOM BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   Spain   A forest of columns – augmented by a grid of trees – supports the new volume, which is at once building and pergola, creating a shaded plaza at ground level. Vernacular building methods like the Catalan vault are also included in the project...

BAAS Arquitectura Moneo Brock casa solo arquitectos   Spain   To meet the most convenient size standards for research labs, the project features two structures – one of concrete and another of steel – which offer views of the central atrium. A wrap-around terrace connects the workspaces with the outdoors while

MAA   South Korea   The Istanbul firm MAA, headed by the architect Melike Altinisik, has unveiled its competition-winning design for the Robot Science Museum in the Chang-dong neighborhood of the South Korean capital. Saving time and money, robots will build the curvin

Frank Gehry   United States   Like an enormous anonymous garage, Facebooks new campus conceals its exact polish with the easygoing, almost slapdash air that characterizes the company. 

Renzo Piano Building Workshop   Italy   The Quartiere delle Albere district in Trento used to be the site of a former Michelin factory. This site shares many characteristics with the urban fabric: the clear hierarchy of the design, its functional stratification, and an overall similarity i

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group   United States   Google promotes the integration of the private lives and the work lives of all its employees within a huge mixed-use complex that fosters leisure, health, and interaction. 

BIG Bjarke Ingels Group Heatherwick Studio   United States   The project for the new Google campus in Mountain View responds to the rapid expansion and constant diversification of the business activity of the technology company, which have ended up leading to an unsustainable organizational situation for its e

Rafael Moneo   United States   The complex comprises interconnected spaces for neuroscience and psychology. A solution might have been to break up the complex into pavilions. Instead, the program presents two sections sharing a large entrance foyer, which encourages contact and co

Kengo Kuma   Italy   The project refurbishes an old industrial complex by attaching several volumes with a pitched roof, and frees up part of the ground floor to establish contact with the sea; a brick facade with different degrees of density unifies the ensemble...

Grimshaw Architects   United Kingdom   Un nuevo referente se recorta en el perfil de Leicester. Con sus 42 metros de altura, la torre del Centro Nacional del Espacio se eleva en las proximidades de la ribera del Soar como una hermana transparente y gigantesca del famoso muñeco neumático d

The Economist   The true master builders of the insect world, however, are the hundreds of species of stingless bee, native to the tropics and subtropics, which weave combs of unparalleled variety and intricacy inside hollow tree trunks or other cavities. Now a grou

Since November 2023, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has been sending a steady radio signal to Earth, but the signal does not contain usable data. The source of the issue appears to be with one of three onboard computers, the flight data subsystem (FDS),

The Essential Induction is the most recent innovation of Gaggenau, the luxury brand for professional quality kitchen appliances. The cooktop and the worktop, two elements that are usually independent in the kitchen, are combined to create a unique ar

Roy Nachum (1979, Jerusalem) works across disciplines and is known especially for paintings that go from surrealism to hyperrealism. Nachum rose to fame with the cover design for Rihanna’s Anti album of 2016, a work that included a fragment in Braill

The speed at which technology is advancing takes the space race of the 21st century to a higher level. It is no longer enough to just reach and set foot on our satellite, we also want to live on it. The architecture studio Hassell has unveiled the Lu

Renco is an American company, based in South Florida, which spearheads advancements in the renewable composites products industry, from which it takes its name (RENewable COmposites). The huge Lego-like blocks they have patented are manufactured with

Eduardo Prieto   The word ‘robot’ evokes certain 20th-century obsessions. For a start, it brings to mind the servile figures if those roboti through which Karel Capek lent weight to the myth, and which found their most amiable expression in the pair of androids of th

Jesús Díaz   AutoFlight’s five-seater Prosperity eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircraft completed a significant milestone by autonomously flying the 50km (31 miles) route from Shenzhen to Zhuhai. The flight from Shenzhen to Zhuhai across the Pear

MareNostrum 5, the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) supercomputer located in Spain was officially inaugurated in Barcelona by Pedro Sánchez, the President of the Government of Spain. MareNostrum 5 is a pre-exascale

The New York Times   Debra Kamin   Through partnerships and 3-D printing, NASA is plotting how to build houses on the moon by 2040. The moon is a magnet, and it is pulling us back. Half a century ago, the astronauts of Apollo 17 spent three days on that pockmarked orb, whose gravitati

Luis Fernández-Galiano   In 17th-century Holland, the microscope and the camera obscura for evermore changed the way we behold. The historian Laura J. Snyder describes this phenomenal mutation in how we perceive things through two figures who coincided in time: Antoni van Le

Architecture has had so many ties to the hard power of politics and religion that we can easily forget how it has also always, from the very beginning, served the soft power of science. Weren’t the Babylon ziggurats towers from which to observe the s

The Guardian   Ian Sample   A portrait assembled from Lego bricks, woodcuts printed in Ukrainian soil and a collection of poetry from every continent are among thousands of works to be archived on the moon as a lasting record of human creativity. The collection, known as the Lu

Euronews   The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope was launched for a six-year mission to shed light on dark energy and dark matter and chart the largest-ever map of the universe... Euronews: ESA's Euclid space telescope launched to discover dar

Luis Fernández-Galiano   After the worst part of the pandemic, the Ukraine war shook the world tracing an ominous geopolitical scenario, which only science advances seem to alleviate.  

Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a horizon-to-horizon hazy band of stars. Now, for the first time, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has produced an image of the Milky Way using neutrino

ICFO   The study, published recently in Nature, has reported on a “Loophole-free Bell test with Superconducting Circuits”. Random number generators, developed by Quside Technologies in collaboration with ICREA Professor at ICFO Morgan W. Mitchell, made poss

Natural or artificial? The dialectic between the two concepts – which is probably one of the most fundamental in human history – unfolded in two directions. Through science and art, human beings aspired to imitate and surpass nature all around them.

Luis Fernández-Galiano   When reviewing the latest work of the historian, professor, and academician José Manuel Sánchez Ron – which follows Como al león por sus garras and El poder de la ciencia – so great is the challenge of tackling its size that I only dare to apply the

Scientific American   Mark Fischetti   Nick Bockelman   Wil V. Srubar   New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production. We make more concrete than we do any other material on Earth. Cement is one of the most energy-intensive products on the planet.

Interactions on social media or meetings on virtual platforms are growing non-stop. Andrés Reisinger (Buenos Aires, 1990) thinks that, as a result of this fast-paced reality, the new generations of artists are starting to show a greater interest in d

Nature Geoscience   Differential rotation of Earth’s inner core relative to the mantle is thought to occur under the effects of the geodynamo on core dynamics and gravitational core–mantle coupling. This rotation has been inferred from temporal changes between repeated

El País   Rafael Clemente   A new project known as the Habitable World Observatory aims to better understand near-Earth exoplanets and study those that could support life. NASA is contemplating an ambitious project: the Habitable World Observatory (HWO), whose mission is d

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