How big is the world’s largest crochet blanket? Crochet Queens, an Indian group, is set to needle past the current South African world record-holders’ 3,377 square meter (11,080 foot) quilt by combining the forces of their 1,800 members. Mother India’s Crochet Queens team, composed of crocheters aged 8 through 85, is ready to earn a […]

1,000mph with 135,000hp. The Bloodhound — the world’s most powerful racing car — has never been publicly viewed before today. It will be on display at Canary Wharf in London. The current land speed record is 763mph. That record was set by the same UK nationals behind this project. Andy Green was the driver of the ThrustSSC that set […]

Engineer Alain Thebault is aiming at a new record. The sailboat designer, who began his career as a teenager wanting to build a boat that would fly, has previously set the sailing speed record with his Hydrofoil, which achieved 50 knots average speed (95km/h) in 2009. Thebault is aiming for a much higher sail speed, […]