The Vatican

Renault has given the Pope an all-electic emissions-free Popemobile, a modified Kangoo Maxi Z.E. with a 44-kW electric motor

Automotive

Pope receives all-electric, zero-emission Popemobile

Renault has given the Pope an all-electic emissions-free Popemobile, a modified Kangoo Maxi Z.E. with a 44-kW electric motor.

Incunabulum of the Nurenberg Chronicle (1483), edited by Hartmann Schedel (Photo: I. Pilon/Shutterstock)

Science

Vatican Library is digitizing 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts

The Vatican Library and the Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford are working together to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient manuscripts.

The dome-like building is actually a giant copper sculpture, furrowed with organic shaped cracks

Architecture

The Carapace – first building design by famous Italian artist Arnaldo Pomodoro

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro has constructed his first-ever architectural sculpture in Umbria.

Automotive

Popemobile with out-of-this-world provenance goes to auction later this week

The greater share of the value of any collector car is in the provenance, so what then of a car built for Pope Paul VI and used as a ticker-tape parade car for the first astronauts to orbit the moon, the first to set foot on the moon and many more?

Sections of the historic 15th century Fibonacci manuscript are going to be put up for auction

Remarkable People

Historic 15th century Fibonacci manuscript up for auction

Sections of the historic 15th century Fibonacci manuscript are going to be put up for auction.

Automotive

Mercedes-Benz builds new armoured Pullman State Limousine

February 27, 2007 Mercedes-Benz is developing a new, armoured luxury limousine designed to carry business tycoons, government ministers, monarchs and heads of