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Chanute, Kansas

Center of Google Earth Mural

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.

A stone house with red roof overlooking a green lawn as shown from the side.

Moultonborough, New Hampshire

Castle in the Clouds

The early 20th-century home features cutting-edge technology of the day, such as ammonia refrigeration and needle showers.

Some two dozen white tubes sit in front of a triangle lattice wall

Bibo Park Ibiza Botánico Biotecnológico

This Ibiza botanical garden showcases some wild machines that run on plants, literally.

At the high-tech military food center colloquially known as Natick Lab, R&D achievements include a vacuum microwave-dried cheeseburger (center top) and other shelf-stable meals.

How to Feed an Army

Go behind the scenes at the Massachusetts military lab engineering the fuel of the future.

Diana Hubbell May 12, 2023

One of the founders of Israel's Tractor Museum, the late Gideon Grosman, restores a small Murray plow.

How Farmers Are Preserving Israel’s Disappearing Agricultural Legacy—One Tractor At a Time

At the Tractor Museum, every machine has a story.

Gitit Ginat April 25, 2023

Nijmegen, Netherlands

Velorama National Bicycle Museum

The only bicycle museum in the Netherlands charts the invention of the now-ubiquitous two-wheeled machine.

The front of the furnace. Slag and molten iron were drawn out here.

Pine Swamp, Pennsylvania

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

Google Garage

Menlo Park, California

Google Garage

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin briefly ran their fledgling company from this Silicon Valley garage.

Guglielmo Marconi Memorial

Washington, D.C.

Guglielmo Marconi Memorial

Dedicated to the man who created the first radio wave communication system.

Analog synth at Switched On

Switched On

A synth musician's paradise at the heart of a community responsible for the soundtrack to 'Stranger Things.'

The Large Wave Flume at Oregon's O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory hosts an experiment in innovative coastal protection.

The Oregon Lab Where Scientists Are Riding the Waves to a Brighter Future

At the O.H. Hinsdale Wave Research Lab in Corvallis, massive simulators allow researchers to test innovative ideas about sustainable energy, saving coastlines, and more.

Annalee Newitz February 3, 2023

Marconi American Wireless Company Tower sign.

Wall Township, New Jersey

Marconi American Wireless Company Tower

A piece of telecommunications history.

Trabucco di Celestino

Termoli, Italia

Trabucco di Celestino

This fishing contraption sits on top of a series of spindly wooden stilts.

Multispectral imaging depicts destruction of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland. In this map, reds show healthy foliage along the Rio São Lourenço, yellows show stressed plant life, while blues and blacks indicate where the forest has died.

Through an Artist’s Eye, Scientific Tools Help Tell Vital Stories

Striking work by photographer Richard Mosse shows how merging art and technology can cut through dry data.

Anita Makri December 27, 2022

Satoshi Nakamoto Bust

Budapest, Hungary

Satoshi Nakamoto Bust

A tribute to the builder(s) of Bitcoin.

Borugak Jagyeongnu at Deoksugung

Seoul, South Korea

Borugak Jagyeongnu

Only a few pieces remain of a grand 16th-century water clock that once announced the changing hours with the sound of bells, gongs, and drums.

Lowther Hill Radar Station

Wanlockhead, Scotland

Lowther Hill Radar Station

Though it looks like a golf ball teed up for a hit, this hilltop station is actually used to monitor air traffic.

Art historians enlisted the help of Argonne National Laboratory to study artist Wolf Vostell's <em>Betonbuch</em> (<em>Concrete Book</em>).

Can Science Solve the Mystery of the Concrete Book?

When a sledgehammer isn't really an option.

April White September 22, 2022