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  • Arm-Sized Bolts Keep Falling Off London’s Cheesegrater Tower 

    Arm-Sized Bolts Keep Falling Off London’s Cheesegrater Tower 

    The Cheesegrater is a beautiful glass wedge of a building that rises over 213m into the London skyline. It unfortunately has some safety problems. This week, its owners revealed that a third bolt of high-strength steel snapped because of “hydrogen embrittlement” — an obscure term, but one that “causes fear among engineers”.


  • This Is Elon Musk’s Plan To Build A Space Internet

    This Is Elon Musk’s Plan To Build A Space Internet

    Elon Musk doesn’t dream small. That much is pretty clear from the hovering space rockets and the vacuum-tube mass transit system. But his latest brainwave, which involves covering both the Earth and Mars in a blanket of sweet, sweet internet, is downright ballsy.