In the early 1980s, the song 'Rapture' by Blondie hit number one in the US Charts. It was unique in that it celebrated elements of graffiti, DJ culture

Scientists are exploring the effects of nicotine patches for treating patients with mild cognitive impairment in an ongoing clinical trial.

There's a cloning tool in Photoshop that would probably be great for creating the illusion of monstrously repetitive high-rises in a mythical megacity. Unfortunately, that tool was not used in this series of images captured by German photographe ...

LEGO Foundation and LEGO Group announced their new project to help blind and visually impaired children learn Braille through custom LEGO Braille Bricks.

The HU is a band from Mongolia that blends heavy metal and traditional Mongolian throat singing.

For years, low-dose aspirin has been described as a panacea to ward off heart attacks, strokes and other cardiovascular disease. New guidelines, though, suggest that aspirin should not be prescribed to most adults who are in good cardiovascular healt ...

See the funniest examples of medieval art where people are getting stabbed but just don’t give a damn.

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Lifting weights for less than an hour a week may reduce your risk for a heart attack or stroke by 40 to 70 percent, according to a new study. Spending more than an hour in the weight room did not yield any additional benefit, the researchers found. T ...

The installation called ‘Zabkowska 9, Take off’ was designed by artist Piotr Janowski and installed in November 2018.

Find out how we keep our famous yew tumps in tip-top condition at Powis Castle. It’s a huge task for us to get all the trimming done. Two gardeners spend six weeks trimming the box hedge and two more spend 12 weeks working on the yew. One gardener sp ...

For nearly 50 years, Bon Bon Bums have been produced in the Colombina factory in La Paila, north of Cali. At the start, 20 workers were responsible for the production of four million lollipops per month. Today, in that same factory, 200 workers produ ...

In 1958 KLM began flying the transpolar route between Europe and Tokyo. Because of the dangerous route the flights took each plane carried an Arctic survival kit. This included: sleeping bags, tents, a raft, a shovel, snow shoes, a camp stove, cold w ...

Learn a new creative skill or delve into art history and graphic design through online courses offered by Harvard, Yale, CalArts, and more.

The Freddy Mercury Tribute

Brutalist architecture has an unavoidable presence in every major metropolis, even Paris. In fact, the French capital is something of a haven for futurist concrete architecture. Brutalist boomed here during the 60s and 70s in response to Modernism’s ...

A recent study suggests that people diagnosed with stress-related disorders may be more prone to autoimmune disease, but did not prove cause and effect.

Ana Martins, the 22-year-old Portuguese artist and graphic embroiderer fell in love with textiles while working on her bachelor’s degree in graphic design, and now she works to “deconstruct, decontextualize and transform a traditional technique into ...

A study reports the rhythm of your breathing can influence neural activity that enhances memory recall and emotional judgement. (2016)