The desert: It’s a hot and unpleasant place, but people keep insisting on living there (just ask the Phoenicians; those are people from Phoenix). Because people aren’t willing to live only in places ...

Inspired by a small and slow snail, scientists have developed a robot protype that may one day scoop up microplastics from the surfaces of oceans, seas and lakes. Inspired by a small and slow snail, ...

Ugo Alfons Casal, Swiss-German origin, was born in Florence, Italy in 1888. From 1918 to 1920 he worked at the Osaka branch of George H. McFadden & Brothers, and from 1920 to 1938 at F. S. Morse & Co.

33 x 15 cm. (13 x 5.9 in.) Ugo Alfons Casal, Swiss-German origin, was born in Florence, Italy in 1888. From 1918 to 1920 he worked at the Osaka branch of George H. McFadden & Brothers, and from 1920 ...