Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years.

Remember all those times your parents told you it was rude to sigh? Well, you can discount that advice entirely, because sighing's actually a crucial reflex that keeps our lungs healthy, and researchers have just uncovered the switch in our brai ...

It's been 100 years since Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves - ripples in spacetime caused by the most explosive events in the Universe - and scientists have been desperately searching for direct evidence of them ever ...

At approximately 8:12 p.m. Eastern time, The Ed Sullivan Show returned from a commercial and there was Ed Sullivan standing before a restless crowd. He tried to begin his next introduction, but then stopped and extended his arms in the universal sign ...

After 19 years of imprisonment, Mary Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England for her complicity in a plot to murder Queen Elizabeth I.

From free-flowing sketches to photorealistic renderings, architects have a plethora of mediums with which to communicate their design ideas to clients and the wider world. However, one particular type of graphic representation has seen a remarkable r ...

Some 400 sculptures make up the most recent installation from British artist Jason deCaires Taylor. Get a sneak peek before it opens to the public.

By 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith were all heavyweights in the rapidly growing motion-picture industry. Chaplin was a British actor and former vaudeville performer whose “Little Tramp” persona had made him o ...

Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old daughter of newspaper publisher Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by two black men and a white woman, all three of whom are armed. Her fiance, Stephen Weed, was beaten and tied up ...

When nearly a quarter of your nation lies below sea level and another half sits less than a metre above, its very existence is under constant attack.

As January closes and in the coming days of February, early morning risers can spot the five naked-eye planets before dawn. Though some might claim to see six planets, in this seaside panoramic view all five celestial wanderers were found above the h ...

Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British scientist who helped developed the atomic bomb, is arrested in Great Britain for passing top-secret information about the bomb to the Soviet Union. The arrest of Fuchs led authorities to several other individuals in ...

Around the world, initiatives from short-story vending machines to poems on packaging are hoping to make the written word accessible to all.

Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, there will be six more we ...

One of the best questions you can ask people in organizations that are struggling is: If you could get rid of one ...

With all my novels I like to drop fictional characters into real situations -- and the NSA is always ripe territory.

A famed futurist who foresees a day when and human and artificial intelligence merge and nanobots battle disease spoke to CBC's Duncan McCue about what lies ahead.

The first portion, or fascicle, of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), considered the most comprehensive and accurate dictionary of the English language, is published. Today, the OED is the definitive authority on the meaning, pronunciation and hist ...

It’s all going down in Skyline town. Just a few weeks ago, we showed you a GT-R completing the quarter-mile in 7.44 seconds, hitting 200.39mph in the process. We were impressed. Very impressed. But EKanoo Racing (who also made this six-second Supra a ...

Drones were recently involved in four serious near misses at UK airports, the UK Air Proximity Board says, as pilot associations call for tighter regulations for drone users.