While the technological marvels of the Sphere have dazzled tourists and locals, UNLV professor Glenn Nowak sees the building that opened its doors Friday from a different perspective. Nowak, founder ...

Red and black base isolators, which absorb movement in earthquakes, are exposed at the Academy Museum's new sphere building. (Ricardo DeAratanha/Los Angeles Times) If the Academy Museum of Motion ...

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Amazon's glassy spherical building isn't finished yet, but it is already attracting the attention of major media outlets such as the New York Times. For those locals who want to check it out, the new ...

Take a sheet of copy paper and grip it flat in your hands. Next, gently push down evenly on both sides to form a smooth curve. Now, twist your left thumb up and your right thumb down. Ta-da! You have ...

The inaugural concert at Las Vegas' Sphere, the city's latest state-of-the-art music venue, earned rave reviews from concert-goers and online commentators alike after its official opening last week.

I just wanted to provide a little bit of commentary in light of a few things I've seen about my criticism of George Dvorsky's proposal to destroy Mercury to build a Dyson Sphere. One thing that I ...

Heh, yeah, no kidding. I mean you've already _got_ construction bots to start with! I'm sure the blue prints will be sooner rather than later. It'd be also nice to have the logistics towers be able to ...