Online 3D Face Reconstruction from a Single Image

Much like its creator, Karl Weierstrass’ monster came from nowhere. After four years at university spent drinking and fencing.

Shayna Leib is a glass artist with 20 years experience in the field to-date.

The fish are painted meticulously, layer by layer, the sandwiched slices revealing slightly more about each creature, similar to the function of a 3D printer.

Today, no one thinks there has been a stage in humanity when some colours were not yet being perceived. Plato’s list of primary colours includes white, black, red, and the ‘brilliant and shining’, to us, not a colour at all.

Rats can feel regret - a cognitive behavior once thought to be uniquely human.

In this all too brief video woodworker Paul Sellers gives us a close-up view as he creates a number of ultra satisfying 'Fibonacci' spiral shavings. Between the soothing music, camerawork, and the mathematical perfection of each spiral as it rises from the wood, I could watch something like this all

Scientific evidence of a ‘higher’ state of consciousness has been found in a study led by the University of Sussex.

Researchers have found traces of Earth's crust in the Canadian Shield dating back 4.2 billion years, when our planet was in its infancy. Earth's composition is unlike any other known planet or moon, with rocky crusts forming and moving over the surface. Over time, this has forced older evidence of such crusts — both oceanic and continental — deep below the surface.

A new study reports highly creative people appear to have more connections between their brain hemispheres.

On July 16, 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre entered a darkened cave where he planned to remain for two months. Tracking the days according to his sleep patterns (one night’s sleep equals one day), he believed his underground stay was ending on Aug. 20. Instead, when he emerged it was Sept. 14 — 25 days later.

A 1970s educational film about the fine art of paper marbling.

Though declines in bee populations have heightened awareness of the importance of pollinating insects to the world's food supply, numerous bee species remain undescribed or poorly understood. Utah State University entomologist Zach Portman studies a diverse group of solitary, desert bees that aren't major pollinators of agricultural crops, but fill an important role in natural ecosystems of the American Southwest, including the sizzling sand dunes of California's Death Valley.

Ninety percent of everything we buy comes to us by ship. Ships bring us food, clothing cars, and our electronics. It is the vehicle of global trade. No shipping, no globalization. Because of their size and the immense amount of fuel they burn, ships belong to one of the most polluting industries in the world. Ships are allowed to burn the dirtiest fuel on the planet.

What if the world were rearranged so that the inhabitants of the country with the largest population would move to the country with the largest area? And the second-largest population would migrate to the second-largest country, and so on? The result would be this disconcerting, disorienting map.

Have you ever wondered why our hands have exactly five fingers? Scientists have uncovered a part of this mystery, and their remarkable discovery is outlined in a new report.

This church in Borgloon, Belgium. It doesn't look like anything special, it consists of 100 layers of stacked steel, that are equidistantly staggered in a way that illusively change in appearance based on where the viewer is standing.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Everyone loves a message in the clouds, but very few people can make them like they used to.

By placing the order of two events into a quantum superposition, physicists have probed the nature of causality