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Arquus Defense France's Scarabée armored car can lock its front and rear axles to move sideways across a battlefield. The vehicle is designed to serve as an air-droppable scout car, collecting battlefield intel. Scarabée also features a hybrid electric drive system that reduces its infrared signature. France’s Arquus has released new details on its Scarabée light armored vehicle. The car, designed to act as a scout on the battlefield, can get itself out of tight spots by locking its front and rear axles, allowing it to move diagonally like a crab. ➡ This ability lets the vehicle move...

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Checking In! Grace Kelly, Little Edie, Liza Minnelli, and the Untold History of the Barbizon Hotel for Women How one Manhattan boarding house became the epicenter of 20th-century celebrity and glamour. By Paulina Bren Hearst Owned Throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, requests for rooms at the Barbizon Hotel for Women grew exponentially. Meche Azcarate from Mexico, for example, was forbidden by her mother to stay anywhere other...

Anindo Dey PhotographyGetty Images Villagers in India are worried that recent deadly floods are the result of plutonium hidden in the Himalayas. The CIA lost the plutonium after a secret mission to monitor China’s nuclear program. Although unlikely, it’s an example of how fearful people are of nuclear materials. Villagers are blaming a long-abandoned cache of plutonium for deadly floods in India’s Himalaya mountains. The plutonium, which the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) abandoned in the 1960s, was meant to power sensors designed to monitor Chinese nuclear tests. While villagers in...

ITER is a huge, internationally enmeshed nuclear fusion project. After spending billions of dollars over decades, the reactor is scheduled to switch on for its first productive (“ignited”) fusion in 2035. Until then, teams will work around the clock on construction and testing. That means assembling the gigantic, donut-shaped tokamak reactor, where nuclear fuel will be turned into sun-hot plasma and circulated in a magnetic field. The magic fuel mix combines tritium and deuterium. There are just 20 kilograms of tritium, a fragile isotope of hydrogen with an extremely short half life, in ...

Simon & Schuster/Getty Images When you’re going on dates, you may be looking for that instant connection. Sudden, sexy, intoxicating. It’s physical, a pang of excitement in your gut, a feeling of nervousness when you look into their eyes. You can’t look away. If they touch you, it’s electric. Everyone else in the room fades into the background. You feel tuned in and turned on. You feel alive. You know what I’m talking about: “the spark.” I get it, the spark is wonderful. But you know what? F**k the spark. The concept is my nemesis: I’ve come to see our obsession with the spar...