On April 24, 2013, the nine-story Rana Plaza textile factory in the Bangladeshi city of Savar collapsed. The operator had ignored life-threatening structural defects. More than 1,100 people were killed and 2,400 were injured. It was the worst accident in the history of the textile and apparel industry.

If you run your finger along the rim of an empty wine glass, it makes a noise. The cause of the noise is vibration. The vibrations arise because the glass expands and contracts minimally as a result of the touch during this period.

The first mosque in Germany was built a hundred years ago, about 40 kilometers south of Berlin, in the town of Wünsdorf – but the wooden building only stood for fifteen years. In cooperation with the Brandenburg State Office of Historical Preservation, Reinhard Bernbeck, Susan Pollock, and their team from the Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology spent the last few weeks searching for the remnants of the mosque.