Maria Mocerino

Jan 14, 2025 | interestingengineering.com | Maria Mocerino

Whereas conventional dissipation devices employ steel to mitigate earthquake damage, the “unique” patent impressively only requires sand to protect buildings from seismic attacks. University of Sharjah professors manufactured a system of containers filled with sand or other granular material that can effectively and efficiently “dissipate seismic attacks and protect buildings” from harm.

Jan 14, 2025 | interestingengineering.com | Maria Mocerino

French scientists identified an astonishingly sophisticated three-dimensional map in a rock shelter that depicts the surrounding landscape. Sègognole 3 in Noisy-sur-École has been famous since the 1980s for its remarkable collection of figurative cave art and engravings, notably horses on either side of a female pubic figuration. But only recently did French scientists note a pattern.

Jan 13, 2025 | interestingengineering.com | Maria Mocerino

Archaeologists discovered that Dmanisis Gora, a stunning 3,000-year-old “mega fortress” in the Caucasus, was so large that they had to take to the skies to capture its “exceptional size.”Cranfield University academic Erb-Satullo and Dimitri Jachvliani, his co-director from the Georgian National Museum, began investigating the Dmanisis Gora settlement in 2018.

Jan 13, 2025 | yahoo.com | Maria Mocerino

A rare sight from the deep: a baby king crab surfaced, and it’s the cutest thing ever, so it broke the internet. NOAA Fisheries shared a video on X, probably knowing full well it would be a massive hit, of a baby Neolithodes agassizii, colloquially known as the “king crab,” on Wednesday. Called the “official mascot of 2025,” the most loveable crustacean on the planet covered in spikes blew up the internet, amassing a whopping 10.4 million views in less than a week.

Jan 13, 2025 | interestingengineering.com | Maria Mocerino

Its unexpected appearance on the shores of our world has caught the globe’s attention; they might not have known that king crabs could be that minuscule and huggable (despite the spikes).  More than just a good source of protein, the King Crab species produces the cutest babies on Earth.   The mega-popular video of the spiky baby seated comfortably in the palm of a gloved hand has kicked off the new year to an auspicious, if not adorable, start.