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NY Design Week 2012: Broom Chair by Philippe Starck for Emeco

American chair manufacturer Emeco continues to make good green use of discarded materials with Broom, a stackable, Philippe Starck-designed seat made from a whopping 90 percent pre-consumer factory waste. [...]

NY Design Week 2012: Naked Cabinet Line by MIO

MIO returns to the International Contemporary Furniture Fair with a range of sustainable plywood storage units that can be adorned with the work of 3 different artists or your very own artistic masterpieces. [...]

ICFF 2010: MIO

Sustainable design firm MIO branches out into eco-fashion and bike accessories with the ‘Design on the Go’ collection, unveiled at ICFF 2010. [...]

Why Italy’s earthquake was weird — and unexpected

The shallowness of the quake is responsible for the high amount of damage. Deeper earthquakes are able to disperse the energy, lessening the impact. [...]

Oldest fossilized pigment found in ancient squid cousin

Researchers, using chemical methods as opposed to less reliable genetic ones, discovered that the ancient melanin was actually eumelanin. [...]

Storm chaser research goes into vortex of tornado

Tornado researchers are dropping 120-pound pods of video cameras and tools for measuring wind speeds right in the paths of tornadoes. [...]

Saola: Elusive ‘Asian unicorn’ faces extinction 20 years after discovery

Conservationists project that there could be only 200, or even as few as just several dozen of the saola left on the planet. [...]

Storms lash Cannes, soaking film stars

Organizers of the glitzy film festival had to reschedule two screenings and postpone a fireworks display due to the surprising storm. [...]

The 5 most promising private spaceships

For tourism or for scientific experiments, the future of commercial space travel is varied and bold. [...]

Anti-whaling leader freed on bail while extradition decided

Paul Watson is accused of ‘putting a ship’s crew in danger’ during a conflict in Guatemalan waters in 2002. [...]