A mystery company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires has purchased tens...
A company called Flannery Associates has been purchasing land in a county near San Francisco.The company has spent up to $15,000 per acre, court documents show.Silicon Valley has long sought to build a new city from scratch. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're…
‘Asteroid City’ Streaming on Peacock: Release Date and Time ...
Wes Anderson's most recent film is headed for the Peacock streaming service this week. Asteroid City, which is also the name of the fictional desert town where the movie is set, debuted in theaters in June. The flick sees world-changing events disrupt the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention in the 1950s and blends comedy, drama,…
Hippies have actually taken control of the ‘city of the future’...
There's a giant contradiction in the middle of the Arizona desert: an experimental city designed for thousands that now contains only a few dozen inhabitants. For nearly five decades, a group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working to build a city that would inspire a new future of urban design. Today, the project is…
The ‘Lost City’ of Atlantis Massif Might Expose How Life Makes...
BELLEVUE, Wash. — In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, an underwater mountain is dotted with chimneys that spew hot water and minerals from deep below. This group of chimneys, collectively called the "Lost City," is teeming with life — and scientists think that what powers them might also fuel life elsewhere in the universe,…
In a ‘lost city’ in the Honduran jungle, scientists have actually...
Deep in the Honduran jungle lies a "lost" city: La Cuidad Blanca, or the White City. The ancient place remained untouched for more than half a millennium after ancestors of the indigenous Pech people quickly vacated the city. Archaeologists squabble over whether the city was ever actually lost, but they agree that its lush environment…
Astronaut states an ignored telescope is NASA’s finest possibility of safeguarding...
A former NASA astronaut says the agency he used to work for has a duty to protect civilians from killer asteroids, but that it isn't meeting that obligation. The threat of asteroid strikes might seem as abstract as outer space itself. But the risk, while infrequent, is real — and potentially more deadly than the…
How Yellow Fever Turned New Orleans Into The ‘City Of The...
Engraving from a series of images titled "The Great Yellow Fever Scourge — Incidents Of Its Horrors In The Most Fatal District Of The Southern States." Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Engraving from a series of images titled "The Great Yellow Fever Scourge — Incidents Of Its Horrors In The…
