Taking bonsai approaches to the next level, a Japanese company based out of Kyushu has raised over half a million dollars so far for its levitating (and rotating) tree system. The fauna in question…

Meet the pioneers of graphic design.

Automobile owners in Amsterdam are waking up to find that their cars have been ‘customized’ overnight with cardboard and masking tape. Suddenly, their boring old sedans boast body fenders, spoilers…

Master the use of blurred images and bring new life to your designs.

Holloways (or: hollow ways) are desire paths gone wild, reflecting centuries or even millennia of informal use, slowly transforming them from flat paths to sunken lanes and, in some cases, semi-sub…

People want to achieve success in life, but it often seems out of reach. According to history's greats, all you just need to take the first step.

John Witzig is the man behind some of the most recognisable images of Australian coastal life and is the subject of a touring exhibition by the National Portrait Gallery celebrating his work and bringing it to a new generation.

Scientists have unravelled the secret to why elephants rarely get cancer despite their large size.

The architect Le Corbusier is a great example of how the creative mind does things.

For the past four years, journalist Victoria Lautman has been photographing an overlooked feature of Indian architectural history: the stepwell.

Before special effects went digital with CGI, part of the magic of movie making included artists laboring over tiny scaled-down sets, creating little worlds that look totally real until a normal-si...

The paradigm of the “overlooked female artist” is both a cliché and a truth.

A koala escapes injury despite being caught in a car grille as the vehicle travelled at a reported 100kph down a freeway.

An army of critically endangered miniature frogs is given a new lease on life after being released in Western Australia's South West.

Originally built for a 1990 travel expo, these fruit-shaped bus stops from southern Japan still look as tasteful (and tasty!) as they did 25 years ago.

Canberra scientists and street artists combine their talents in an effort to bring local scientific research and discoveries to the fore.

A man may be able to tell if a woman is faithful from her looks, researchers say

Recent outbreaks of the plague in the United States and Madagascar are a reminder that the very bacteria which ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages still threatens us today.

All of the books in the world still exist, yet are just out of reach, locked up in an impenetrable fortress or stacked so high we can’t hope to reach them, in this dystopian vision by Shanghai-base...