Re:NEW Festival Archives

A sample from the Drap-Art exhibit, which makes its North American premier in Pittsburgh, Sept. 9-Oct. 9. Drap-Art is part of the Re:NEW Festival, which celebrates creative reuse, sustainability and transformation. Image credit: Little Shilpa, PRNewsFoto/VisitPittsburgh.

Pittsburgh Festivals Focus on Upcycling, Art

September 9, 2016 Kay Whatley

Pittsburgh’s Cutting-Edge Festivals Reflect Steel City’s Transformation City to Present World-class Art, Music, and Innovation Released by Lynne Glover, visitpittsburgh.com Three cutting-edge festivals taking place in Pittsburgh this fall illustrate the Steel City’s transformation like never […]

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The Strange-ness: Study Finds that Australia Shifts with the Seasons

November 11, 2016

By Daniel Garisto, American Geophysical Union Australia shifts and tilts back and forth by several millimeters each year because of changes to the Earth’s center of mass, according to a new study. The findings could […]

The Strange-ness: NIST Team Breaks Distance Record for Quantum Teleportation

September 25, 2015

By Laura Ost, NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have “teleported” or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than […]

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The Strange-ness: Tiger Finds Friend in Goat

December 3, 2015

While the Bible may say that the leopard will lie down with the goat, at an animal park in Russia it is a tiger that has adopted a goat as a bunk mate. Right around the date […]