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A massive illuminated entertainment sphere is coming to Abu Dhabi's Yas Island by 2029, backed by $1.7 billion in funding. The 20,000-seat venue will showcase cutting-edge technology alongside Emirati culture and regional artists.
An immersive entertainment venue featuring a massive LED exterior and wrap-around screens is coming to Maryland's National Harbor, just 15 minutes from Washington, DC. The mini-Sphere will bring Las Vegas-style tech spectacles to the East Coast with room for 6,000 people.
The innovative Las Vegas Sphere, known for its immersive LED displays and cutting-edge technology, is bringing its magic to National Harbor, Maryland. The new venue will create nearly 5,000 jobs and become one of the largest economic development projects in county history.
The massive Las Vegas Sphere turned into a glowing Moon this week to celebrate NASA's historic Artemis 2 mission. The 516-foot entertainment venue displayed the Orion spacecraft circling a picture-perfect lunar surface as four astronauts prepared to splash down after humanity's first Moon flyby in over 50 years.
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A massive illuminated sphere and soundscape filled with brine flies, bison, and bird calls recently drew crowds to a Salt Lake City park. The immersive artwork transformed environmental crisis into hope, rallying Utahns to save their disappearing lake before it's too late.
Scientists are deploying underwater concrete batteries off Long Beach by 2026 that use ocean pressure to store clean energy without lithium or rare earth metals. The technology could unlock 817,000 gigawatt-hours of global storage capacity using just seawater and physics.
A Portland thrift store owner kicked the same rock every day for 200 days across nine states to see if it would become perfectly round. The journey not only worked but also became a viral sensation that doubled his business.
A massive spherical building three times bigger than the Las Vegas Sphere promises to recreate the experience of walking on the Moon. The resort could welcome visitors as early as 2032 with its simulated lunar surface.
German researchers have created batteries using rust-filled carbon spheres that are safer, more powerful, and easier to recycle than current lithium-ion technology. The breakthrough could make renewable energy storage both cleaner and more accessible.
Scientists created tiny gold spheres that absorb nearly 90% of sunlight's energy, almost doubling the efficiency of current solar technology. The breakthrough could make high-efficiency solar power far more accessible and affordable.
No Doubt guitarist Tom Dumont is opening up about his early onset Parkinson's diagnosis and proving the show goes on. Just weeks before the band's Las Vegas Sphere residency, he's sharing his story to help others facing similar struggles.
A simple metal sphere launched in 1976 holds Carl Sagan's plaque mapping Earth's continents across 276 million years, designed to be discovered when it falls back to Earth in 8.4 million years. The message uses continental drift itself as a clock to tell future finders when we lived.
A curious boy spotting tiny spheres near an ant nest led scientists to discover a century-old mystery about how insects and plants work together. His dad, an entomology professor, turned the moment into groundbreaking research that rewrites textbooks.
A PhD student in India just recreated mysterious blue spheres that could explain how life began on Earth, reviving the forgotten work of a husband-wife chemistry team from the 1960s. Their groundbreaking discovery might change what we look for when searching for life on other planets.
A mysterious golden sphere found on the Alaskan seafloor in 2023 stumped scientists for nearly three years. Advanced DNA testing finally revealed it was part of a giant deep-sea anemone, showing how ocean exploration continues unlocking nature's secrets.
A telescope in Hawaii captured a breathtaking image of a dying star wrapped in a glowing, milky white sphere 1,500 light-years from Earth. The stellar finale reveals the beauty hidden in cosmic endings.
Christina Koch returned from NASA's Artemis II mission with a powerful message about humanity's shared connection. After watching Earth shrink to a fragile sphere through her spacecraft window, she realized our entire planet functions as one crew.
A British engineer solved a problem nobody asked for by creating an electric bike that balances a full-grown rider on a single giant sphere. The open-source design lets anyone build their own impossibly balanced machine.
For the first time in over half a century, humans have reached the moon's gravitational sphere, marking a historic return to lunar exploration. The four-person Artemis II crew is breaking barriers and witnessing sights no human has ever seen with their own eyes.
A tennis ball-sized Japanese robot successfully explored the moon on its own, transforming from a sphere into a two-wheeled rover. The adorable SORA-Q marks a new era of small, smart robots that can reach places larger rovers can't.
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