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Performances, exhibitions and gatherings have moved into tanks once used to store oil. Oil Tank Culture Park retains their large walls and volumes while changing what happens inside.
A robot may clean the floor, but the stairs still need a person. Saros Rover aims to cross that boundary with a structure combining wheels and legs.
You go to take a drink, but the cap stays beside the opening. That unfamiliar detail reflects a design that considers what happens after the bottle is empty.
People now walk where cars once crossed the Seoul Station overpass. Plants and pedestrian paths on the retained structure offer places to stop and look at a city once glimpsed through a car window.
Before a meeting, choose a book in the plaza and sit for a few minutes. Seoul Outdoor Library makes room for reading along routes people already use.
A chair’s useful life need not end because it will not fit in a new home. IKEA Buyback checks used furniture and makes space in its stores for it to reach another owner.
A leaf folded yesterday has opened a little today. A plant chosen for its looks brings small tasks into the home: checking water and light, and waiting for change.
A run you might postpone alone becomes a meeting at the park entrance. Activity-tracking apps are also seeing more groups and events that bring runners to the same starting point.
A video played over a meal can represent years of work for its creator. A diet YouTuber’s decision to delete 339 videos after receiving a policy notice reveals the gap between watching that work and making it.
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The Hovenring’s circular cycle bridge sits above a lowered junction, a design decision that made its approach slopes gentler.
Four trophies at the 2026 KGMA, WONI’s first awards-show hosting role, and performances of “With” and “Inside Out” from RESCENE’s fourth mini album, PULSE.
A 4–1 series win over KT, sealed in Daegu: series MVP Koo Ja-wook, Kang Min-ho’s first title, and the dugout on the day Samsung won the 2026 championship.
A TV cowboy appeared on the 1950 Hopalong Cassidy lunchbox. A favourite character became another reason to choose the container that carried lunch.
Fresnel optics arrange angled sections to concentrate light without a single massive lens. The glittering structure was a tool for distant ships.
Surface grooves make pasta change shape as it cooks. The 2021 morphing-pasta research explored a way to reduce packing space.
Four transistors helped make the 1954 Regency TR-1 small enough to carry. Changes inside the radio let listeners take it beyond the living room.
Kodak’s 1900 Brownie lowered the price of entry to photography. Its small box began a family of many different cameras.
Webb’s mirror folded for launch and was precisely aligned afterward. Beneath its thin gold coating lies lightweight, stable beryllium.
Fresnel optics arrange angled sections to concentrate light without a single massive lens. The glittering structure was a tool for distant ships.
Four transistors helped make the 1954 Regency TR-1 small enough to carry. Changes inside the radio let listeners take it beyond the living room.
Kodak’s 1900 Brownie lowered the price of entry to photography. Its small box began a family of many different cameras.
The red second hand waits for the next minute. A movement associated with synchronizing station clocks survives in a domestic version.
A drink-can tab is a tiny lever. Its geometry opens the scored panel while keeping the used pieces attached.
Webb’s mirror folded for launch and was precisely aligned afterward. Beneath its thin gold coating lies lightweight, stable beryllium.
PigeonBot folds feathered wings through wrist- and finger-like movements. It studies wing shape and control rather than flapping propulsion.
JPL’s Gecko Gripper explores controlled attachment and release, using directional adhesion to handle objects ordinary jaws struggle to grasp.
MOXIE made 122 grams of oxygen from Martian carbon dioxide, testing a process relevant to both breathing and a return rocket.
SWOT records water height and width to help examine stretches of river between ground stations.
A TV cowboy appeared on the 1950 Hopalong Cassidy lunchbox. A favourite character became another reason to choose the container that carried lunch.
Surface grooves make pasta change shape as it cooks. The 2021 morphing-pasta research explored a way to reduce packing space.
The 1858 inscription on Mason jars refers to a patent. It also appeared on later production, so the date alone cannot establish a jar’s age.
Watching his daughter struggle with a milkshake led Friedman to corrugate a paper straw. His first customer for the flexible version was a hospital.
Fold the rear wheel under, then bring in the front and handlebar sections. Brompton turns a bicycle into a compact package for the space it needs after the ride.
The Hovenring’s circular cycle bridge sits above a lowered junction, a design decision that made its approach slopes gentler.
An elevated freight line that began operating in 1934 reopened as a park in 2009. New York’s High Line places paths, benches and planting alongside the old rails.
A boat stays afloat while its tank moves to another level. Balance is central to the Falkirk Wheel’s enormous rotation.
Sanborn fire insurance maps used colors and symbols to record construction materials as well as addresses and streets.
Behind the sculpture and flowing water was a practical purpose: making drinking water available on the street.
Four trophies at the 2026 KGMA, WONI’s first awards-show hosting role, and performances of “With” and “Inside Out” from RESCENE’s fourth mini album, PULSE.
A 4–1 series win over KT, sealed in Daegu: series MVP Koo Ja-wook, Kang Min-ho’s first title, and the dugout on the day Samsung won the 2026 championship.
At Dokk1 in Aarhus, new parents can press a hospital button to ring a great bell and share the news with library visitors.
Edison’s 1877 phonograph indented tinfoil and traced it again, linking the recording of sound to its playback.
The Lewis chessmen give individual faces to pieces with the same role. Their mouths, eyes and gestures reward a closer look.
From Eric Woolfson on “Eye in the Sky” to Colin Blunstone on “Old and Wise”: the singers and studio stories behind the Alan Parsons Project.
From “Waterloo” and “The Winner Takes It All” to a mother and daughter singing in Mamma Mia!: nearly forty years passed before ABBA made a new album, while their songs kept finding other voices and stages.
From “소녀” to “옛사랑,” follow the people and streets in Lee Moon Sae and Lee Young-hoon’s songs, then listen onward to “봄바람” and later work.
From “Get Away,” which follows “Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” we explore Chicago through eight songs: Terry Kath’s guitar, Peter Cetera’s ballads, and the band’s contrasting voices.
From a-ha’s comic-book hero to “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” solo albums and a new duet with his daughter: nine songs to follow.
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