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The global map on which all your geographical knowledge is based probably wasn't as accurate as you thought. For nearly 500 years, classrooms have referred to the Mercator projection, which exaggerated the size of continents...

The 250,000-square-foot building is the first facility in the United States to achieve all possible credits in the Indoor Environmental Quality category under the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) v2009 Core and Shell...

The recently completed building, which now houses Harvard's Anthropology Department, is a 35,000-square-foot LEED Gold-certified facility which won the 2016 Hobson Award given by the AIA for best new architecture project...

Formerly a painter, Echelman began experimenting with nets sculptures in 1997 during a trip to India. She learnt the art of net weaving from local fisherman of the Mahaballipuram region turning a humble craft into marvelous...

Formerly a painter, Echelman began experimenting with nets sculptures in 1997 during a trip to India. She learnt the art of net weaving from local fisherman of the Mahaballipuram region turning a humble craft into marvelous...

People have been growing food and raising livestock across the United States for centuries—even in cities. But it wasn't until around the 1970s that backyard produce started showing up on sidewalks as well as in city parks...

Teaching fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Wilhelmina Peragine, pulled together a team of students, volunteers, city officials and several nonprofits in order to transform two parking spaces in Boston into a...

The snowfall this winter has been pretty extraordinary; in Boston alone over six feet of snow has fallen, promoting the city's mayor to declare that it is fine to dump snow in the harbor—because no one's quite sure what...

The Audi Urban Future Initiative, a global platform for dialog between the city and the automobile, is meant to discover innovative ideas for tomorrow's mobility...

Swing Time (2014) - short from HYA on Vimeo. ‘Swing Time’ is located in Boston, between the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and D Street.  It consists of 20 circular glowing hammocks that interact with people...

The city of Boston just announced plans to roll out a series of solar-powered 'Soofa' benches that will enable citizens to charge their phones while they rest! The 'Soofas' were developed by Charging Environments, a spin-off...

The City of Boston has officially enlisted bike sharing in the fight against obesity. Under the recently launched "Prescribe-a-Bike" program, Boston Medical Center doctors can now write low-income patients prescriptions for...

The City of Boston has officially enlisted bike-sharing in the fight against obesity. Under the recently launched "Prescribe-a-Bike" program, Boston Medical Center doctors can now write low-income patients prescriptions for...

Last year Japan set to work testing the world’s fastest “floating” maglev train, which can hit top speeds of over 310 mph. Now, keen to share (or show off) their feat to the rest of the world, the Japanese...

"SQUIRREL!" Have you ever wondered why parks and other urban green spaces are filled with squirrels? Well, Etienne Benson, an assistant professor in Penn’s Department of History and Sociology of Science, believes that their...