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In 2013, tech billionaire and "real life Iron Man" Elon Musk first proposed his concept for the Hyperloop, a futuristic ground transport system made up of levitating pods hurtling through pressurized tubes at 700mph.
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Last week, the Science Museum Group (SMG) and the Victoria and Albert Museum announced what they deemed "a historic agreement": 400,000 objects from SMG’s three-million-strong photography collection, held at the National Media Museum in Bradford, England, will be moved to London's V&A.
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Now available for rent on Airbnb is a full-size, 3D replica of Vincent van Gogh's famous painting "The Bedroom" (1889), complete with rustic twin bed, pale violet walls, copper-green wood floor, and straw hat on a peg.
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One teenager's daredevil stunt to procure aerial photographs and video of the Egyptian desert has earned him a lifelong ban from the country.
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Deer nibbling on fruit trees, blue-feathered birds, and a vine winding around a candelabra adorn an astonishingly well-preserved 1st-century Roman fresco that archaeologists have just discovered in London.
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It seems like there's always something new to discover in the thousands of pages of notes and drawings left behind by Leonardo da Vinci, whether it's a sketch for an early refrigerator or an illustration of a viola organista fusing a piano with a stringed instrument.
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Damien "World's Richest Living Artist" Hirst is expanding his historic home facing London's tony Regent's Park, though you won't notice much of a change at street level.
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The owner of a horse that photobombed a contest-winning selfie, snapped by a three-year-old boy of him and his father, is demanding a share of the prize, arguing that the family should have asked her for permission prior to taking the photograph.
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Archelis, a futuristic new "wearable chair" by Japan's Hiroaki Nishimura Design, provides workers with a healthy middle ground between deadly all-day sitting and tiring all-day standing.
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A court in Saudi Arabia has overturned the death sentence given to Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh last November on charges of publicly renouncing Islam, but the new terms of his punishment are also extremely savage.
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Every summer for the past 17 years, the Young Architects Program has chosen a designer to transform MoMA PS1's courtyard in Long Island City, Queens with a temporary installation.
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The largest Hieronymus Bosch exhibition ever organized, set to open in two weeks in the Dutch master's hometown in the Netherlands, will now be even bigger.