Slated to be one of the greenest buildings of its kind in the world, 3.0 University Place, built in partnership with global icon Saint-Gobain, is soon to be developed in West Philadelphia, and will be a 190,000-square-foot, Class A commercial office building at 41st and Market Street. The project is…...

A group of researchers have found a new and simpler way to convert carbon dioxide into more usable fuels and other chemicals. The team, led by Professor Ted Sargent of the University of Toronto's Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, have discovered a more efficient way to harvest and convert…...

Aside from trying to transform the world’s perceived view of electric cars, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now looking to change the way the world's electricity systems operate. As chairman of power-generating company SolarCity, he’s looking to soon be rolling out a new product: a roof complete with built-in solar…...

The New Museum was a daring attempt to create a radical center for contemporary art in New York City, that would distinguishing itself from existing galleries with a focus on new and emerging artists. It succeeded. And, over the decades following its foundation in 1977, that success, along with its…...

According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – or NOAA – there’s an island of plastic waste floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean about the size of Texas. Now, while most of it is not visible to the naked eye, as the plastic is mostly broken…...

Large scale public transportation infrastructure construction projects are notorious for wildly exceeding their budgets and completion schedules. Look at the ‘Big Dig’ in Boston, MA. This project, to reroute the city’s central arterial road via various tunnels and bridges, should have been finished in 1998 and cost $2.8 billion. It…...

South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has got together with Power Plaza Co Ltd and engineered an ultra-compact foldable electric vehicle for urban mobility as part of its efforts to bring greener, lighter electric vehicles to the country’s crowded city centres. South Korea’s economic boom time…...

The Jehovah’s Witness Christian denomination, founded in 1870 by Charles Taze Russel and best-known around the world for knocking on people’s doors in the middle of the day, as well as the printing and distribution of its Watchtower and Awake! magazines, is said to have more than eight million adherents…...

Although around 75 million people passed through London's Heathrow International Airport in 2015, ranking it one of the busiest in the world and, according to Forbes, easily the most used airport in the UK, a bid to enlarge Heathrow back in 2010 was unsuccessful. Plans to build a third, 2200…...