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NASA Experimental Mars Helicopter Blade Designs Target Longer Flights
Rotor blade cross-sections highlight the thinner profile of the roamx-0201 design (right) compared to the more traditional, rounded shape used by NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which accomplished the first powered flight on Mars. NASA…
How Market Design Could Help Save Utah's Great Salt Lake
Dr. Silvia Console Battilana is co‑founder of Auctionomics. The Great Salt Lake is the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere. It is an ecological marvel, crucial to migratory birds and native species that have adapted to its harsh…
Why Complex Billing Breaks Companies (And How To Design Around It)
The solution is to design around billing complexity instead of reacting to it. This means it has to be designed for, not patched into existence. Relying on hard-coded rules or rigid legacy tools guarantees friction the moment sales introduces a…
HKEX launches Green Equity designation programme to promote green economy
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (0388) on Tuesday launched a new voluntary designation programme named HKEX Green Equity, aiming to help investors more readily identify Hong Kong-listed companies with significant green business activities. SCROLL…
Scotland asks public to design £1.4m memorial of Queen Elizabeth
A £1.4 million permanent memorial of Queen Elizabeth funded by the taxpayer is to be created in Scotland, despite support for the monarchy dropping in polls. Members of the public are being asked to share their ideas on the memorial's…
Design trends: Lessons from a Venetian palazzo
Some of the most memorable design lessons come while travelling. Stepping into unfamiliar places can shift our perspective, revealing new ways to use colour, arrange a room or bring historic architecture into the present. Often, it's a detail that…
Tourist killed in freak accident at landmark designed by one of America's most famous architects
A tourist was killed in a freak accident while visiting an architectural landmark designed by one of America's greatest architects last week, according to authorities. Rogério Renato Mateucci, 55, was killed around 2 p.m. on Friday when…
With Few French Design Firms in the U.S., Liaigre Prepares for Growth
The business of French bespoke furniture and interior design is relatively underdeveloped in the U.S., but Liaigre's new U.S. chief executive officer plans on changing that. In September, Henri Corbin de Mangoux was appointed to the role at the…
Inherited Ground: Designing Houses on Contaminated Land
Industrial activity can end long before its effects disappear from the land. Factories close, buildings are demolished, and former industrial districts gradually become part of new residential developments. Yet the soil beneath them may still…
Kartik Research Heads to Pitti Uomo as Guest Designer in January 2027
MILAN — Indian brand Kartik Research, which played a starring role in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's swearing-in ceremony last January, when he wore one of its ties — is the second guest designer to be announced by Pitti Uomo…
The CO2-absorbing building made of old sinks, windscreens and toilets: Ghent's £17m design museum is a green marvel
Museums often try to reflect the world around them, but rarely are they made so literally of their surroundings as the new design museum in Ghent. Rising above the Belgian city's medieval tiled rooftops like an angular white watchtower, the new…
Cadence: The Design Bottleneck Is Becoming More Valuable (NASDAQ:CDNS)
Simple Investment Ideas 11.15K Followers Cadence Design Systems justifies its premium valuation by capitalizing on rising chip complexity and deep integration in customer workflows. CDNS's partnerships with TSM, Samsung, Google Cloud, and NVIDIA…
4 tattoo trends for 2027 - and the overdone designs artists want you to stop asking for
Most of us mums have at least one tattoo idea tucked away for ‘when things calm down'. Spoiler: they never do. But if you're finally ready to book that appointment, it's worth knowing what's in and what's out. The Mirror reports that tattoo…
Tuxedo jackets are the on-trend style replacing basic blazers - Next's burgundy design nails two trends
We may only be halfway through October, but already we're starting to think ahead to party season as the invites start to trickle in and our calendars slowly begin to book up. Dinners with friends, get-togethers over cocktails, the work Christmas…
Sacha Baron Cohen Defends Bringing Back 'Problematic' Ali G Amid Controversy: He's 'Designed to Expose' Prejudice
Sacha Baron Cohen has explained why he decided to resurrect his buffoon alter-ego Ali G after more than a decade. “The fact that Ali G is outdated and problematic is the very reason I resurrected him,” Baron Cohen writes in a cover…
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