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By The Artful Age Editorial Team · Sep 11, 2026
Melbourne firm Luyten has turned an ordinary tower crane into a concrete 3D printer that can build structures up to 100…
- Sep 11, 2026 Birds have long woven fishing line, plastic bags and electrical wire into their nests, but researchers studying nests… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 11, 2026 Marine biologists spent decades wondering how identical limpets end up at hydrothermal vents thousands of kilometres… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 10, 2026 Fleming came back from the First World War focused on the problem of infection, and he spent the next decade studying… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 10, 2026 Quote by Anne Lamott: Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 8, 2026 The Tunguska blast in 1908 knocked down tens of millions of trees in a radial pattern larger than Greater London, and… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 Lake Nyos in Cameroon sits inside a 210-metre-deep volcanic crater at 1,091 metres altitude, and for decades carbon… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 Archaeologists long assumed prehistoric people only passed briefly through the Pyrenees above 2,000 metres, but a cave… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 7, 2026 Biologists have catalogued thousands of parasites, but only one is known to functionally replace an organ of its host By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 4, 2026 Modern concrete usually crumbles within about 100 years, but a sample taken from beneath a communal latrine at… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 4, 2026 On 18 August 1868, French astronomer Pierre Janssen pointed a spectroscope at a total solar eclipse over Guntur, India… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 3, 2026 One cotton T-shirt takes about 2,700 litres of water to make By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 3, 2026 Children who nap after learning a new skill retain roughly ten percent more of it the next day than children kept… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 3, 2026 The hardest part of watching a parent age isn't the physical decline, it's the role reversal nobody trained you for and… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 2, 2026 Every patch of human skin the size of a pencil eraser carries roughly a million bacteria, and NASA now warns those… By The Artful Age Editorial Team
- Sep 1, 2026 In the quietest room on Earth, the only sound left is you By The Artful Age Editorial Team