Science
May 28, 2014

Gorgeous Gemstone Looks Like a Nebula is Trapped Inside

Looking at this breathtaking gemstone, one thing is clear: nature is amazing. This fine specimen, with its clumps of cloud-like formation and its shimmering background streaked with luminescent colors, looks like it has an entire nebula trapped inside it. The gorgeous stone is not an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen, helium, and other ionized gases, however, but just an ordinary opal.

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Design
May 22, 2014

Modern Tuscan Amphitheater Features Responsive Canopy

The Italian hill town of Peccioli is the site for the soon-to-be-built Parco Degli Angeli (Park of Angels), a complex that's meant to enjoy music and art. It features a covered, multi-seat amphitheater that can accommodate up to 800 people with interactive sculptures that overlook the idyllic Tuscan countryside. New York-based firm Asymptote Architecture was commissioned to design the space, and they envisioned the project as a sculptural canopy structure that contrasts the surrounding landscape.

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Photography
May 21, 2014

Long-Lost Color Photos from 1939 Reveal Life in England on the Brink of WWII

After the death of his grandmother in February of this year, Barney Britton found an unexpected treasure while cleaning out her attic: a wooden box filled with dozens of 35mm slides documenting his grandparents' honeymoon trip in 1939. Although Britton's mother remembered seeing the photos as a child, they were long presumed to be lost after several decades and multiple house moves.

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