21 days. That’s the time it will take to complete the largest train journey in the world. 6, 200 miles (9977 kilometers) that go from Yiwu, China, to Madrid, Spain. It’s also part of the New Silk Road, a Chinese project to gain control over transcontinental cargo transportation between Asia and Europe. Read more…
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This is now the longest train journey in the world
In order to keep up with the frenetic growth of global shipping traffic— which has quadrupled over the past two decades alone—commercial cargo ships keep getting bigger. And the newest king of the containerships isn’t one of Maersk’s EEE titans, it’s the CSCL Globe. Read more…
Google just announced a new internet subscription service called Google Contributor , essentially a paywall for web publishers to provide ad-free content for a $1-$3 contribution. Read more…
Well, here’s a cooooool finding. Take any piece of electronic equipment you can think of and its circuits are powered by, yes, electrons. But a new experiment takes us one step closer to “atomtronic circuits” made of supercold quantum matter that can be reconfigured on the fly. Read more…
The oldest lightbulb in continuous use was installed before the Wright Brothers took flight, is 110 years old, and is still as beautiful as the day she was born. In fact, it’s likely the oldest electrical device in continuous use period . Take a moment and consider just how much the world has changed around this one, singular device. Read more…