Don’t try this at home… or anywhere! ‘Professional idiot’, 19, hangs off 600ft-high building in London’s Canary Wharf for YouTube stunt Adam Lockwood, 19, pretended to throw himself a London building for a prank The daredevil teenager takes videos of him climbing tall European buildings The warehouse worker from Wigan performed a similar stunt in … Read more
A couple has revealed how they spent seven years designing and building a home made entirely out of bits of trash. Laura Davies and Dave Buchanan, both 55, live in their so-called ‘Earthship’ in the Almeria province of Andalucia in Spain. The pair moved to Spain in 2002 and initially purchased an old Cortijo, a … Read more
Elon Musk revealed last year that SpaceX would one-day develop floating ‘spaceports’ to launch its Starship rocket to the moon and Mars – and it seems that time has finally come. A job posting on the firm’s site lists a new position for an Offshore Operations Engineer who would ‘work as part of a team … Read more
Olivia Culpo puts her decorating skills to the test as she builds a volcano cake for her nephew Remi’s second birthday By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 07:20 BST, 14 June 2020 | Updated: 07:20 BST, 14 June 2020 Olivia Culpo has made it known on Instagram that she is head-over-heels for her nephew Remi. … Read more
Move over Mars rover! A team of engineers are building insect-sized robot swarms to explore other planets CSU Northridge engineers are developing tiny insect-like robot swarms The team was given a $538,000 grant from the Department of Defense The robot swarms could eventually replace rovers in exploring other planets By Michael Thomsen For Dailymail.com Published: … Read more
Nissan Sunderland plant this week resumed vehicle production after almost three months, with a new Juke the first car off the line on Monday evening. The vehicle factory in the North East – the biggest in the country with more than 7,000 staff – is one of the last major car manufacturing sites to restart … Read more
Asteroids colliding with the Earth four billion years ago created the building blocks of life on our planet and possibly even on ancient Mars, a new study claims. Researchers from Tohoku University in Japan recreated the conditions present in seabed craters made by the space rocks crashing into the young Earth. The team say these … Read more
A white venture capitalist who threatened to call 911 on a group of African American entrepreneurs working out in a Minneapolis gym has had his office lease terminated. Tom Austin, the managing partner of F2 Group, was filmed challenging the men inside the Mozaic East building, in Uptown, on Tuesday night, telling them ‘I’m a … Read more
Queen upsets locals at Sandringham estate by building half-mile ‘eyesore’ kerb to stop cars parking on roadside The Queen, 94, had the 1,000-metre kerb erected at the royal estate in Norfolk The foot-high mound has prevented visitors from parking along the grass verge The earth bank was started last autumn and is near St Mary … Read more
Construction sites will be allowed to stay open late and during weekends in a proposed move by ministers to help firms get back to work and avoid worsening impact wreaked by the coronavirus outbreak on the economy. A proposed temporary override of measures that typically prohibit building work being undertaken at night or on Sundays … Read more