Israel’s Only Bottle Factory Turns Desert Sand Into Mountains of Glass

Deep in the heart of Israel’s desert, shimmering mountains of green, brown and white glass dominate the landscape, awaiting a new life. It’s a beautiful spectacle. Read more…

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Plasma-Cutting Steel Underwater Is a Wondrous Phase of Shipbuilding

Thanks to this explanatory video full of really cool time lapse footages, we can take a look inside BAE Systems’ shipbuilding halls in Scotland, where the new offshore patrol vessels for the Royal Navy are being built as part of a £348 million contract, or about $530 million. Read more…

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Drought Brings a 16th-Century Mexican Temple to the Surface Again

The ruins of the Temple of Santiago are not an easy destination to visit, or even have a look at. The walls of the once sacred building are usually hiding under water, but now drought lowered the river the temple has been hiding in, revealing a rather awesome sight. Read more…

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Inside the Caverns of Hungary’s Abandoned Underground Coal Plant

There is a hidden industrial gem north of Lake Balaton, near Balatonfűzfő, Hungary , and when I say hidden I mean it. Because what else do you call the bare remains of a wartime power station 30 feet deep under the ground? I recently got a chance to bring my camera inside the haunting corridors of this long gone industrial complex. Read more…

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Rosetta’s Comet Is Singing and You Can Listen To It Here

Listen to it! That’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko singing. This cosmic song was just discovered by the European Space Agency, which released the soundtrack for our enjoyment. It’s totally new and unexpected, say the scientists who will remotely land a probe on the rocky surface of the comet tomorrow. Read more…

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A Rare Tour Inside a Thousand-Year-Old High-Tech Winery

The Abbey Winery in Pannonhalma , Hungary, has one of the oldest wine making traditions in Europe. In 996, Benedictine monks settled on the Sacred Hill of Pannonia—and they’ve always been closely associated with viticulture and winemaking introduced by the Romans. Read more…

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This Is The Incredibly Swirling North Polar Ice Cap Of Mars

You surely remember that image of Saturn’s 1,250 mile-wide polar hurricane shot by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. Today European Space Agency released a similarly stunning image of Mars’s north polar ice cap on the 10th anniversary of the ESA’s Mars Express mission launched on 2 June 2003. Read more…        

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