Most people's origami talents don't stretch further than a paper plane; Ilan Garibi, however, uses it to build sculptures. Source: Artist hand-folds metal and wood on a grand scale | WIRED UK

Rather like a contemporary Doctor Frankenstein, Peter Holden makes disembodied limbs dance on his command. The Leipzig-based British artist attaches body parts to a mechanical frame and programs their movements using a computer, to turn his sculptures into animations. Source: Artist makes mechanical limbs dance on command | WIRED UK

This is the Urban Observatory, an interactive exhibit bursting with geographic data pulled from more than 60 cities around the world, from Abu Dhabi to Yakima, and translated into a common language and scale. Its aim: to help improve the design of future cities. Source: The Urban Observatory compares world cities for planners | WIREDContinue reading "The Urban Observatory compares world cities for planners | WIRED UK"

Amsterdam is about to be encircled by a giant letter G -- a park planted with specially modified honeysuckle that has been designed to capture air pollution. Source: Plant power is cleaning up Amsterdam's air | WIRED UK

Andras Forgacs grows meat and leather in a factory, not a factory farm. Modern Meadow, the Brooklyn-based startup he cofounded alongside his father Gabor, creates animal protein using biofabrication: cell and tissue cultures grown from cows' muscle cells. Source: Growing meat and leather in a factory

People with autism often find it difficult to find employment, but what if their "special" qualities could be channelled into economic value? Source: Specialisterne connect people with autism to companies

Supermassive stars with a mass between 55,000 and 56,000 times larger than our Sun, don't behave like normal stars. In this simulation of one exploding, physicists have discovered that when they die they don't form a black hole, as dying stars usually do. Source: This simulation could unlock the Universe's secrets

This is the world's only museum devoted to the misunderstood microbe -- the tiny, invisible creatures that make up two-thirds of all life on Earth. Source: Inside the lives of microbes | WIRED UK

Rubber bands aren't typically used for anything much more elaborate than securing a sheet of paper into a tube. But the addition of substance du jour graphene gives them a new, scientific function. Source: How to make an electrically conducting rubber band

From the moment an employee enters The Edge to the moment they leave, the building -- Amsterdam HQ of professional services firm Deloitte -- is tracking them. Source: Deloitte's Amsterdam HQ senses staff movements to save energy