As Jamie Dwyer, a biologist and design strategist for the Biomimicry 3.8 ... The external scaffold of the Gherkin mimics the lattice arrangement of E. aspergillum. The curved sides allow winds to pass ...

When Japanese engineer Eiji Nakatsu was designing the new 500-series Shinkansen bullet train in the 1990s, he was looking for ...

A true dill cucumber is between the size of a gherkin and a small cucumber, but if you can’t get hold of any, you can use gherkins or small immature cucumbers instead. You will need two 500 ...

Some 1,200 tourists were evacuated on Tuesday from the iconic Paris landmark, the Eiffel Tower, after reports of a fire in one of its elevator shafts between the first and second floor.

Mohali building collapse: A short three-second video has emerged capturing the moments before a four-storey building collapsed in Punjab's Mohali last evening. At least two people have died in the ...

The best tower fans can make a huge difference in a room, even in the colder months when you're less concerned about cooling. They can help you circulate the air in your home, which is important ...

Horrifying video captured a plane crashing into a building in Hawaii during a training flight — with a pilot telling the control tower: “We’re out of control here.” The two people on board ...

“So turns out we bought an extra building that we didn’t know about…love a bit of buy one get one free though so I’m not complaining!” the pair, Ben and Rebecca, gushed in the captio ...

Today it’s known as Kız Kulesi, or Maiden’s Tower, and over the past two-and-a-half millennia it’s served many roles. Built as a customs checkpoint in 410 BCE, it’s been a defense tower ...

A dramatic cloud tower captured from space. An astronaut on the ISS photographed the structure of this burgeoning cumulus congestus near the shore of the Persian Gulf. A dramatic cloud tower ...