In its way, żurek (pronounced “zhurek”) is the most humble of all Polish soups, and at the same time the most exotic, at least to the foreign palate. It has traditionally been eaten at Easter, but now is found on menus all year-round.

Hidden in an unknown corner of China is a toxic, nightmarish lake created by our thirst for smartphones, gadgets and green tech, discovers Tim Maughan.

Nine days, 15 states, and 3,400 miles after leaving San Francisco, Delphi's autonomous car arrived in New York City.

On Tuesday, HBO revealed that Sunday’s broadcast had brought in nearly 1.7 million viewers, the most for the premiere of a documentary since 2006 and Spike Lee’s When the Levees Broke about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Going Clear is now repeating on HBO, and can be seen at any time on demand. So what are Scientologists doing about it?

This recipe makes twelve tarts filled with raisins and a wonderful brown sugar, toasted coconut, and walnut mixture that bakes up gooey, sweet and absolutely delicious. Top with a dollop of unsweetened whipped cream.

It gives us great pleasure to announce that release 5.1 is now live! For those of you who are dedicated community leaders this update has been a long time coming and is just one of the many releases planned for this year! In this release we introduce an exciting new referral program for tribes as well as additional tribe related updates and general usability improvements.

ARE you sitting comfortably? Here is the Story of the Decline of the Academic Library. Once Upon A Time libraries were the gatekeepers to most of the information students and academics needed. Books had the information and libraries had the books. Then one day the Big Bad Internet came along and made hundreds of millions of books, articles and manuscripts freely available to anyone with access to a computer.

Silicon Valley startup Ubiquitous Energy is making the world’s first transparent solar cells, a technology that could greatly expand the reach of solar power. Their technology is an invisible film that can go on any surface and generate power, which could lead to cell phones and tablets that never run out of batteries — or skyscrapers that can use their massive banks of windows as solar panels. Bloomberg's Sam Grobart reports.

Every summer, I try to spend as many days as possible on the beach at Enoshima, and each time I get out of the station and walk towards the sand, I pass a long line of people waiting for a seat at the local pancake restaurant. This isn’t Japan’s only pancake joint with a lengthy wait, either, as you can find...

Despite nuclear threats from the Soviet Union, most Americans in the 1960s shunned the idea of fallout shelters.

"It was a muggy day, the sort where you feel your t-shirt sticking to you before you even realize it. We hired some local guides, who then hired some even more local guides to help show the way to the spire we wanted to ascend. Boy was it grueling! Jagged rocks, thorny bushes, all-fours most of the way. Sometimes the only thing to hold onto was a thorn bush or a glassy-evil-jaded rock. At the top, I looked down to see all kinds of grisly lacerations... but gathered my wits to get this photo!"

Coastal ice shelves are thinning and the process is speeding up, making it easier for land ice to reach the sea and raise global sea levels

The comb jelly, a primitive marine creature, is forcing scientists to rethink how animals got their start.

In 100 years it will not be acceptable to use genderised words such as ‘he’ or ‘she’, which are loaded with centuries of prejudice and reduce a spectrum of greys to black and white. We will use the pronoun ‘heesh’ to refer to all persons equally, regardless of their chosen gender. This will of course apply not only to humans, but to all animals.

It doesn't have to be a tea party to make these delicious treats.

While art has always been a major part of John Bramblitt's life, it wasn't until he completely lost his sight that he tried to paint for the first time. From the age of 11, Bramblitt's vision was gradually stolen from him by epilepsy. By the time he was 30, seizures had rendered him completely blind, sending him into what he calls "the deepest, darkest hole" of depression. "All of the hopes and dreams that I had for my life...

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has announced that an update for software in all-electric cars will turn them into autonomous vehicles. The autonomous features will be available only on freeways as sensors will detect white lines, for driving the car between them. Tesla claims to offer super-cruise control, including detection of pedestrians. More updates will bring in the ability of the user to drive the vehicle automatically to a place or back to the garage using a smartphone.

The comet being observed by Europe's Rosetta satellite is very gradually spinning down.

The carbon fiber supercar will go into production in 2016 with 600+ bhp

"Lion Whisperer" Kevin Richardson and a team of wildlife experts are handing out the final exams to their students of the South African plains. How will Welgedacht Game Reserve's lions and hyenas measure up to these tests designed to explore their ability to learn, recognize, and hunt in new and unfamiliar settings? Witness the last of these remarkable experiments as these apex predators play a numbers game deciding how and who to attack.

When scientists develop a full quantum computer, the world of computing will undergo a revolution of sophistication, speed and energy efficiency that will make even our beefiest conventional machines seem like Stone Age clunkers by comparison. But, before that happens, quantum physicists like the ones in UC Santa Barbara’s physics professor John Martinis’ lab will have to create circuitry that takes advantage of the marvelous computing prowess promised by the quantum bit...

In preparation for the first major release update of 2015 we have made some minor but important visual updates across the Snapzu platform. If you're interested in finding out a little more about the things we have changed, be sure to click in and read the rest of this blog post.

Vladimir Putin's mysterious sabbatical from public life is now in its eighth day, and, still, nobody knows where he is. The Kremlin, whose spokesman Dmitry Peskov has the unfortunate task of insisting nothing is wrong, denies that the Russian president is incapacitated. On Saturday, Moscow announced that Putin will surface on Monday in St. Petersburg, where he's scheduled to meet Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambaev. The meeting would be Putin's first public appearance since March 5...

An interesting documentary on the life of Alan Turing, famous for his hand in breaking the Enigma Code and cultivating the seed for the computing industry, but sadly persecuted for his homosexuality. A much rawer take compared to The Imitation Game!

Boil them, deep-freeze them, crush them, dry them out or blast them into space: tardigrades will survive it all and come back for more

Scientists have discovered a bizarre human-sized lobster ancestor that lived 480 million years ago.

With St. Patrick’s Day rapidly approaching, there’s obviously one question on everyone’s mind: Which beer should I drink on this special day?

Though fried fish tacos are justifiably popular, tacos are equally delicious made with healthy grilled fish, which is even better when grilled over hardwood chips, which impart a subtle smoky flavo...

The caboose train car you see below was renovated into the beautiful caboose tiny house that it is today. Pretty cool, right? It’s called the Great Northern X215 and is available as one of many caboose tiny house vacations in Essex, Montana at the Izaak Walton Inn.