An unprecedented view of a swarm of young and forming stars that appear to have been shocked into existence and the false color image of the southern-central edge of the Tibetan Plateau are just two of our Space Photos of the Week.
We go inside the massive Siemens train factory near Sacramento, Ca, building one of the most advanced, and fastest, trains in the US.
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The photographer who only wishes to be known as Igno (@_ingo_1) is a self-described clean freak. His feed is flooded with sharp white buildings, turquoise skies, and unusual shapes from around the world.
#Minimalism is king on Instagram, where more than 3.5 million photos use that hashtag. The app is full of photographers who perfected the clean, artfully empty aesthetic, and gain thousands of followers because of their flawless feeds.
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If Robots Take Our Jobs, What Will Be Left for Humans to Do? Speakers at the WIRED Business Conference grapple with how AI will transform the job market.
The Light Rider is a skeletal motorbike that weighs just 77 pounds. For comparison, a BMW GS tips the scales at around 550 pounds. A Harley Davidson Fatboy? 725 pounds. To be fair, the Light Rider wasn’t designed like your typical motorcycle.
The Light Rider is a 3-D printed, aluminum-alloy frame that resembles a web of metallic bones. Look closely and you can see the bike’s mechanics peeking through the gaps in its frame, like organs through a ribcage.
The Light Rider’s funky form is the result of a technique called generative design. Generative design places the job of prototyping into the hands of a computer algorithm.
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Ten years ago, the UAE embarked on a $22 billion mission to build a zero-carbon city powered by the sun, cooled by the wind, and entirely dependent upon mass transit. But building the world’s first sustainable metropolis proved far trickier than anyone anticipated, and just 5 percent of Masdar City stands today.
French photographer Etienne Malapert takes you inside this stalled utopia with City of Possibilities. His captivating images reveal rows of silicon solar panels soaking up sunlight, futuristic towers rising above narrow streets, and exhausted workers cooling off in the shade. Despite the constant clamor of construction, the future is uncertain.
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Tech bubble? What tech bubble. The future looks bright, especially when you sit down to talk with these four people.
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California won’t be throwing much shade this summer. It would need trees to do that. Last year almost 30 million trees died in the Golden State—and that number is expected to double or triple by the end of 2016. The high mortality rates come at a time when the state needs healthy forests most, with climate change looming always and a La Niña—El Niño’s dry hermana—on the way.
The likely outcome? California’s landscape will radically transform, starting with a surge of wildfires that will trigger mudslides, diminished water quality, and the rise of new vegetation.
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Idaho is particularly welcoming to those fleeing violence, famine, or persecution in the Middle East, Africa, and beyond. The state has taken in almost 30,000 refugees from more than 50 countries since 1975. About 1,000 arrive each year, and 70 percent of them end up in Boise, a city of just 214,000 people. They find jobs doing everything from washing dishes and driving Ubers to teaching in college and running businesses.
Los Angeles photographer Angie Smith has spent more than a year meeting hundreds of them and making their portraits for the ongoing series Stronger Shines the Light Inside.
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Less than a week after he formally endorsed her, President Obama is stumping aggressively for Hillary Clinton. And he chose a fitting place to do it: The White House’s first-ever United State of Women Summit.
It’s in the Clinton campaign’s best interest, and arguably in the best interest of Obama’s legacy, to energize as many women as possible this election.
Obama’s remarks today addressed the totality of his own record on women’s issues—from signing the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act as soon as he took office to pushing for free birth control access in the Affordable Care Act. But through it all, the subtext was that none of that will matter if the United States elects Trump in November.
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