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Takao Doi, a former Japanese astronaut and professor at Kyoto University, holds an engineering model of LignoSat during an interview with Reuters at his laboratory at Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, October 25, 2024. REUTERS/Irene Wang
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World’s first wooden satellite, developed in Japan, heads to space
The world’s first wooden satellite, built by Japanese researchers, was launched into space on Tuesday, in an early test of using timber in lunar and Mars exploration.

The Latest in Design

A display of "Hello Kitty" items are seen at a press preview of the "CUTE" exhibition at Somerset House in London, England, on January 24, 2024.
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Hello Kitty at 50: The mouthless face that launched an $80 billion empire
Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube.
TM & Spin Master Toys UK Limited
This is the world’s smallest Rubik’s Cube. And it actually works
Oct 4, 2024
Yang Liwei, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, stands beside China's moon-landing spacesuit during the opening ceremony of the 3rd Space Suit Technology Forum on September 28, 2024 in Chongqing, China.
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China’s astronauts are aiming to land on the moon by 2030. They now have a new spacesuit to do it
Sep 30, 2024
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Republicans are red and Democrats blue. But it wasn’t always that way
Sep 20, 2024
Mathilde Wittock - Soundbounce.
Rodolphe de Brabandere
Meet the artist transforming tennis balls into furniture
Sep 10, 2024
VW Beetle Mexico
Mirja Vogel
The VW Beetle evokes memories of years gone by, but in Mexico it’s still part of the present
Aug 25, 2024
 +POOL Rendering at Pier 35. Designed by Family New York & Playlab, Inc. Image by Luxigon, 2021.
+ POOL rendering at Pier 35. Designed by Family New York & Playlab, Inc. Image by Luxigon
New York City is one step closer to getting its long-awaited floating East River pool
Aug 15, 2024
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Charli XCX
How this ‘off-putting’ color shaded the internet and beyond
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Marathon-winning ‘spray-on’ running shoes could shake up Olympics
The Phryge, Paris 2024 Paralympics mascot, poses during a presentation to the press of the Paris 2024 podium on the Trocadero Parvis des Droits de l'Homme (Human Rights square) in front of the Eiffel Tower on May 23, 2024 in Paris. (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / AFP) (Photo by STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Fun or frightening? A brief history of Olympic mascot design
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How Britain’s political parties got their colors
The “BioHome3D,” a 3D-printed 600-square-foot single-family house
University of Maine, Advanced Structures and Composites Center
‘When can I have one?’: The world’s largest 3D printer is building cozy homes from wood

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Video The Times Square ball drop has been a New York tradition for over 100 years 1:23
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399078 02: Workers install the final light bulbs onto the exterior of the Times Square New Years Ball December 28, 2001 in New York City. New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Times Square security would equal or exceed measures taken for the millennium. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
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Video The Times Square ball drop has been a New York tradition for over 100 years 1:40
Dec 28, 2023
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Video See 2024’s color of the year 1:06
Dec 7, 2023
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‘Bound to secrecy’: The indelible ink behind the world’s biggest election
A rare Roman dodecahedron was found in Lincolnshire, England last summer and is set to go on display in the Lincoln Museum in Lincoln, England.
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‘Great enigma’: Amateur archaeologists unearth mysterious Roman object
Kim Kardashian at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on March 10, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Variety via Getty Images)
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Inside ‘Biba:’ The iconic London store where Anna Wintour was a shop girl
Shigeichi Negishi poses for a picture in 2018.
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Inventor of first karaoke machine, Shigeichi Negishi, dies aged 100
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George Michael commemorated with coins from UK’s Royal Mint
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Tate & Lyle senior vice-president of sugars, Gerald Mason, holds a jar of golden syrup at the company's refinery in east London, Britain October 10, 2016.
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World’s oldest unchanged brand changes logo for the first time in over 140 years
Designing Coffee
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Are these the most beautiful coffee shops in the world?
Richard Plaud using 706,900 matchsticks to build the structure.
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Joy for maker of tallest matchstick Eiffel Tower as Guinness World Records reverses initial rejection