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The Workforce of the Future: Turning Data into Smart Warehouse Success
In a sector dominated by physical goods, supply chain leaders are embracing automation, AI, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to improve speed, accuracy, and cost-efficiency. In fact, 50% of warehouses over 1 million square feet already use autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). Just two years ago, the global warehouse automation market was projected to grow from $19.23 billion in 2023 to $69 billion by 2025, illustrating the rapid pace at which these technologies are being adopted.
Exklusive Bilder: Intime Einblicke in das Leben von Papst Franziskus
Die Welt trauert um das Oberhaupt der römisch-katholischen Kirche. Aus diesem Anlass zeigen wir Eindrücke aus dem Alltag des Heiligen Vaters im Vatikan. Veröffentlicht am 22. Apr. 2025, 11:57 MESZ Mehr als zwölf Jahre lang war er das Oberhaupt der römisch-katholischen Kirche: Am 21. April, einem Ostermontag, ist Papst Franziskus im Alter von 88 Jahren im Vatikan verstorben. Die Wahl von Jorge Mario Bergoglio – so sein bürgerlicher Name – zum Heiligen Vater am 13.
Brunelleschi's Dome
This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town fathers of Florence finally addressed a monumental problem they’d been ignoring for decades: the enormous hole in the roof of their cathedral. Season after season, the winter rains and summer sun had streamed in over Santa Maria del Fiore’s high altar—or where the high altar should have been.
House Majority Leader Rants endorses Brent Siegrist in congressional race
Iowa House Majority Leader Christopher Rants, R-Sioux City, announced he is supporting House Speaker Brent Siegrist, R-Council Bluffs, for the Republican congressional nomination for 5th District. Rants said all four men in the race are good candidates. Siegrist is in a tight primary with Iowa Sen. John Redwine of Sioux City, Iowa Sen. Steve King of Kiron and Council Bluffs businessman Jeff Ballenger. "Brent Siegrist has been on the leading edge to improve the quality of life in Iowa," said Rants.
Pope Francis's Christmas gift to a grieving photographer
The best pictures are not taken; they are gifts. Fittingly, this one arrived on Christmas Day in 2014. It materialized in the Sistine Chapel, miraculously, as if it had descended from Michelangelo’s “Creation of Adam” in the ceiling above. But it came to me at a time so difficult that even today I question whether I should have been there at all. Pope Francis had been elected the year before.
See New Discoveries at the Mysterious City of the Jaguar
Over the past month, the excavation of an ancient city in Honduras has yielded a trove of remarkable stone artifacts from a mysterious, unnamed Pre-Columbian civilization.
Excavation of Ancient Lost City Yields New Finds
Excavation of a “lost city” in eastern Honduras has begun with a flourish, with President Juan Orlando Hernández personally removing the first stone sculpture from the site Tuesday. The artifact is one of dozens from a cache found in February of last year among ruins of a Pre-Columbian city deep in the jungle of La Mosquitia. The artifacts were left untouched under military protection at the undisclosed location.
Excavation of Ancient Lost City Yields New Finds
Excavation of a “lost city” in eastern Honduras has begun with a flourish, with President Juan Orlando Hernández personally removing the first stone sculpture from the site Tuesday. The artifact is one of dozens from a cache found in February of last year among ruins of a Pre-Columbian city deep in the jungle of La Mosquitia. The artifacts were left untouched under military protection at the undisclosed location.
Archaeologists Begin Excavation Of Honduran “Lost City”
For a century, explorers and prospectors in Honduras told tales of the white ramparts of a lost city glimpsed above jungle foliage. Indigenous stories speak of a “white house” where Indians took refuge from Spanish conquistadores.
Seven Major Archaeological Discoveries of 2015
2015 was a year when archaeology frequently made headlines around the world, but unfortunately, it was all too often for the same terrible reason. This was the year when ISIS (Islamic State) released their full destructive fury on ancient sites and cultural monuments across Syria and Iraq. But this was also the year that archaeologists triumphed in the field.
Pernicious Parasite Strikes Explorers of ‘Lost City’
Members of a successful recent expedition to find a lost city in the Honduran rain forest have returned to the United States with an unwelcome souvenir: infections from the tropical disease leishmaniasis. The illness was transmitted by sand flies that swarmed the explorers in stinging clouds.
'Unimaginable' Access to Pope Francis Yields 68,000 Photos
For six months, National Geographic photographer Dave Yoder had extraordinary access to Pope Francis at the Vatican, an experience that he expects he will one day look back on as “surreal.” It took weeks to secure permission to shoot in some Vatican locations, but Yoder persevered. He befriended the pope’s personal photographer, which eventually allowed him to closely shadow the pontiff.
Nature Never Forgives: 7 of Pope Francis's Greenest Quotes
Pope Francis is not the first pontiff to insist that caring for the environment is a responsibility of every Christian. But he has been the most forceful, mincing no words in his often harsh and anguished calls for urgent action. Earlier this year, he issued the first-ever papal encyclical on the environment.
National Geographic Magazine - NGM.com
Lure of the Lost City Laser-mapping technology uncovers extensive ruins in a Honduran jungle rumored to contain a mythic White City. Photograph by Dave Yoder A carved stone vessel from a little-known pre-Columbian culture in Honduras awaits excavation. Photograph by Dave Yoder In the La Mosquitia region of Honduras, former British Special Air Service (SAS) officer Andrew Wood machetes a trail to ruins of a pre-Columbian city, first detected from the air by a technology called lidar.
7 Ancient Mysteries Archaeologists Will Solve This Century
When the National Geographic Society awarded its first archaeology grant to Hiram Bingham in 1912, the archaeologist headed off to Machu Picchu with one of the most advanced pieces of technology at the time: a Kodak panoramic camera.
Pope Francis Image, Vatican City
July 28, 2015 The People’s Pope Photograph by Dave Yoder At a general audience in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City, Pope Francis rides in a popemobile without the protection of bulletproof glass. The pontiff wandered freely when he was a cardinal in Buenos Aires but cannot do so in Rome for his own safety. See more pictures from the August 2015 feature story “Will the Pope Change the Vatican?”
10 of Pope Francis’s Most Provocative Quotes
The pope has many ways to talk to the world’s people, including his @Pontifex Twitter account with 20 million followers. His speeches, homilies, teachings, messages and, recently, his encyclical on climate change are parsed for evidence of his thinking on crucial issues, such as poverty, marriage, divorce, homosexuality, and the role of women in the church.
Vatican Was Going Green Long Before Pope's Climate Decree
From Pope John Paul II's pleas to a quarter-century ago to the Vatican's increasingly sophisticated relationship with science, the Roman Catholic Church has been for decades to take seriously. And Pope Francis, a with a deep concern for the poor, seems intent on demonstrating that climate change—the ultimate "green" issue—is about more than saving polar bears.
Vatican Was Going Green Long Before Pope's Climate Decree
From Pope John Paul II's pleas to a quarter-century ago to the Vatican's increasingly sophisticated relationship with science, the Roman Catholic Church has been for decades to take seriously. And Pope Francis, a with a deep concern for the poor, seems intent on demonstrating that climate change—the ultimate "green" issue—is about more than saving polar bears.
Eat, Cook, Love: How a Girl From Missouri Ended Up in Rome
That’s a long story. It goes back to my childhood. When I was 12 years old, my parents came to Italy and did the whole Florence, Venice, Rome thing. The only difference was they went back to St. Louis, my father sold his business, rented out our house, and we ended up moving back to Rome for two years. That’s what started my love affair with Italy. I live in Monti, which I think is the best neighborhood in Rome. Of course, everybody says their own neighborhood is the best.
Newly Found ‘Lost City’ Protected by Honduran President
The president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, took steps this week to secure and protect the newly found archaeological site of a “lost city” in the eastern part of his country, after concerns were raised in an exclusive National Geographic article earlier this month about threats from potential looters and illegal loggers.
A Song for Ireland
From the February/March 2015 issue of Traveler magazine Several miles from the sea in the west of Ireland, outside the market town of Listowel, along county road 555, a path cuts into the overgrowth and up the hillside. I almost miss it. There is no street sign, no marking of any kind. High hedges bound the single lane—brambles brush both sides of the car as I drive past. Occasionally there’s a break in the wild growth, and green fields speckled with brown and white cows come into view.
King takes conservative path
King takes conservative path He hasn't lost an election yet, and Steve King doesn't intend to now. The Republican candidate for the Fifth District came out on top in his Iowa Senate races in 1996 and 2000 and then won a hotly contested party primary in June. The self-described conservative Republican hails from Kiron, a town of 301 near the geographic center of the redrawn Fifth District that sprawls over 32 western Iowa counties, providing a huge advantage in the number of registered Republicans.
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