The Bundesliga features top atmospheres, league-wide countering speed that floored Pep Guardiola, the most goals per game, and a variety of styles among the best teams that you can’t get anywhere else. Bayern, Gladbach, Leverkusen, and Wolfsburg play ...

Vexillologist (scholar of flags) Ted Kaye tells us which design he would choose to represent the land of Kiwis.

People can’t get enough information about artificial sweeteners. Do they help you diet? Do they make you fat? Are they healthier than sugar? Are they healthy?

As this weekend’s Community Shield heralds a new Premier League season, more people than ever will be watching it online – without paying a penny. Is this plain old piracy, or just priced-out fans taking sport back from big business? And is there any ...

Motorists woke up one mid-70s morning to find new one-way streets made direct crosstown journeys impossible by car. Forty years later Groningen boasts two-thirds of all trips made by bike … and the cleanest air of any big Dutch city.

Markus Beckedahl of Netzpolitik.org: "We don’t know if we should cry or not."

"It's fun to go to art museums and see the still-life pictures, and see what our vegetables looked like 500 years ago," James Nienhuis told me. In many cases, it's our only chance to peer into the past, since we can't preserv ...

Ronald Perry can’t seem to get his patients’ teeth white enough. The Massachusetts dentist, who directs the Gavel Center for Restorative Research at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, shows patients who want to whiten their teeth the VITA Cl ...

W-W-W-Windows 10 is out, but thankfully without a video like this.

Your very own personal assistant, a better browser... and something called the Start menu.

How did a city landfill in the armpit of the Bronx become one of the world’s most infamous penitentiaries? How did a house of detention opened to progressive fanfare during the New Deal come to symbolize the worst excesses of our contemporary justice ...

As of last nightly (2015-07-23), Firefox for Linux is using Gtk+3 instead of Gtk+2.

Biases against facial characteristics might have chilling real-world effects

While reducing the chances the United States or Israel will resort to the military option, the Iran deal also increases their capabilities to do so.

Nigeria is one of just three countries in the world, along with Pakistan and Afghanistan, where polio transmission has never been fully stopped. But there hasn't been a case in almost a year. So Africa is on the verge of being polio-free.

One person has been killed and several injured in an attack on a factory near Grenoble in southeast France. According to local reports, an Islamist flag has been found at the site.

70 years ago, the notorious Platform 21 was used to load Jews on boxcars headed for death. Today, the same space houses those who have fled their countries seeking life.

The question, for anyone having to choose a gift for the Queen, is what to give the woman who has everything. The answer, as Germany’s president Joachim Gauck discovered on Wednesday, is certainly not a modernist portrait of Her Majesty on a blue po ...

This is the second time in just over a decade that Parma have been declared insolvent – having fallen on hard times after the Parmalat scandal in 2004. A new Parma entity will have to begin again from Serie D, the highest amateur league, and attempt ...