The idea of a "primordial soup," in which life theoretically began in lakes and oceans, may be way off. New studies suggest the beginnings of life on this planet could have occurred deep underground.

The dystopian novel has a long, dark and intriguing history. Kicking off in 1726 with Jonathan Swift’s rip-roaring satire Gulliver’s Travels, it’s gone through numerous transformations in the last three centuries. One thing all these books share, tho ...

The UK is a rich landscape of regional accents and dialects, each evidence of the society’ s continuity and change, its local history and Britons' day-to-day lives. This site captures and celebrates the diversity of spoken English in the second ...

This is Villa Epecuen, an old tourist town south of Buenos Aires that spent a quarter of a century underwater.

Bullet bounces off the head of Florida man Walter Santiago, after flying through his open window while he was driving.

If you can send any article back in time to December 31, 2012, make it this one.

As the moderate faction of the Syrian rebellion implodes under the strain of vicious infighting and diminished resources, the United States is increasingly looking to hardline Islamists in its efforts to gain leverage in Syria's civil war. The d ...

Checkpoints with fire extinguishers, pincer-wielding police officers, and spies disguised as monks—welcome to daily life in Lhasa.

Worldmapper is a huge collection of interesting cartograms - maps with countries resized according to different factors. Those who like visualizing data can waste a lot of time looking through this repository.

Interesting effect of slightly different periods

Nature's beauty can't be beat, but at least it can be captured.

Ligeia Mare on Saturn's moon Titan has 40 times more liquid methane than our global reserves – plus the smoothest surface of any lake in our solar system.

The following is not a futuristic scenario. It is not science fiction. It is a demonstration of the results of an extremely unlikely, yet intellectually fascinating query: What would happen if the earth stopped spinning?

A few of these are obvious, so I tweaked the title.

Video explores what happens when a stream of water is exposed to an audio speaker producing a loud 24hz sine wave.

Device lays the groundwork for a new second.

Beautiful photographs of a number of the world's villages.

Here is a selection of the photographs behind Norman Rockwell's iconic paintings.

London-based artist Jonty Hurwitz creates 'Anamorphic Sculptures' which only reveal themselves once facing a reflective cylinder.

Here's something that'll blow your mind (sorry that it's an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl's nose for 30 seconds, then quickly look at a white