Ancient, hybrid brews embody a past before ale and wine became separate categories.

On Tuesday, President Obama, if precedent holds, will declare that the state of America’s union is “strong.” Is it? One way to judge is by the state of the states of the union: How strong are they, and, dare we ask, which is the strongest?

Johnnyrandom, a crafty composer, uses only a bicycle to create an interesting piece of music.

Stare long enough at these twin images, and you will never see a map of China again without thinking of an agitated chicken flapping its wings as it runs eastward to chase a - what is that?

These drawings created from pencils, inks and paints are unbelievably photorealistic. You won't believe your eyes!

John Cage’s 4’33″ is commonly described as “four and a half minutes of silence,” but in fact it’s the opposite — Cage hoped to lead the audience to hear the ambient sounds of the concert hall as music, to accept as art sounds that they wouldn’t norma ...

Jamie Scott spent six months photographing fifteen color-saturated landscapes to make this video.

An official selection of the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. In 1983, after years of deteriorating vision, the writer and theologian John Hull lost the last traces of light sensation. For the next three years, he kept a diary on audiocassette of his int ...

For thousands of years, man has practiced the art of tree and plant shaping.  There are many methods for actively influencing a tree’s growth, such as bonsai, topiary, espalier, pleaching, and grafting.  Some of these methods may be used together to ...

Look at the most beautiful and wonderful mushrooms that exist on our planet.

Welcome to Vulcan Point

This short video explains why.

Professional photographer Tim Tadder gathered a bunch of awesome bald men and hurled water balloons at their heads to capture the explosion of water at various intervals. He named this project "Water Wigs."

She took a deep breath and waited for the curious crowd to fall silent. Then, the voice of an angel flowed out of her tiny body.

People have long seen faces in the Moon, in oddly-shaped vegetables and even burnt toast, but a Berlin-based group is scouring the planet via satellite imagery for human-like features. What's behind our desire to see faces in our surroundings, a ...

Take millions of data points, each one a geolocated entry plucked from a digitised collection of 18th- and 19th-century ships’ logs, pin them all on a blank canvas, and you get this extraordinary world map.

Once Thierry Cohen finds an image within his chosen city, this dedicated photographer takes meticulous notes: time, angle, latitude and longitude of the exposure. He then tracks the Earth’s rotation and goes hunting for perfect darkness. What would h ...

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These masks may look like complex woven mats of metal or fabric – and that would be impressive – but the truth is even more astounding. Origami artist Joel Cooper uses a folding method called tessellation to create his elaborate masks out of one piec ...

Zaria Forman's nearly photorealistic works exquisitely capture the atmosphere and mood of a landscape in flux.