There’s lots of competition for the title of world’s tallest skyscraper, but does anyone care about the world’s longest – even when it extends vertically into an upside-down U shape? If you w…

Despite mass vaccination, polio is making a comeback. Sewage could become a critical early warning system.

A fountain of jazz-playing animals, an angel with a gas mask and an entire family of peeing sculptures – Belgium has no shortage of strange statues.

Canadians are ‘Spocking’ their fivers in tribute to deceased actor Leonard Nimoy, aka Spock from the Star Trek series...

The ability to remember sounds, and manipulate them in our minds, is incredibly important to our daily lives -- without it we would not be able to understand a sentence, or do simple arithmetic. New research is shedding light on how sound memory work ...

In 1965, Forrest J. Ackerman hired legendary movie make-up artist Dick Smith to produce a Famous Monsters of Filmland Do-It-Yourself Monster Make-Up Handbook. Smith (1922-2014) was the guy who did the award-winning make-up for movies like The Exorcis ...

Lo and behold, flying machines straight out of a Jetsons cartoon are set to become a reality. Think Uber but as a boat which hovers above the water– so basically, a flying boat taxi, right here along the Paris Seine River..

Massive animal abuse in Belgian corporate slaughterhouse. The organisation filmed, in secret, “the fraudulent practices of Belgium's largest abattoir.” It denounces the “unimaginable suffering” that the pigs are enduring.

The project was ambitious but this is even more so, the end result will be the front and back of the house being completely covered in intricate mosaic.

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The self-cleaning abilities of a popular plant provides clues to cutting deaths linked to stent surgery. The number of cyborgs in our midst is growing rapidly. From heart to hip, many of us will end up with a medical implant at some time in our lives ...

The crash is reportedly due to a disagreement among Bitcoin developers.

Italian researchers examining a medieval painting may have found the earliest depiction of dracunculiasis, a parasitic infection in which a long worm creeps out of the skin. The parasite could have earned its nickname 'fiery serpent' becaus ...

While Banksy makes millions from his artwork, London’s young graffiti artists are being demonised and imprisoned for expressing themselves in the exact same way as the famed street artist. Some consider graffiti a vital urban art form, while others r ...

This type of food carving is popular in fancy restaurants in China and Japan but Gaku takes it to another level.

New research from Poland successfully recreates Stanley Milgram’s famous obedience studies from the 1960s.

Whether you want to call it a new art form or a simply a hipster hobby, an artist France is pushing street-side string art in amusing new directions.