This Scientist Is Building A Robot Version Of Himself, And It's The Most...
While studying at the London College of Communications, photographer Luisa Whitton was commissioned to shoot her dream project: visiting the robotics lab of Japanese scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro.Ishiguro...
View ArticleTake A Tour Of An Abandoned Underground Cold War Missile Base
In 1960, during the height of the Cold War, the US Air Force introduced the Titan I, its first series of multi-stage Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles. Along with the Atlas missile program, they...
View ArticleNorway's Island Prison For Violent Criminals Looks Like No Prison We've Ever...
About a mile off the coast of Norway, in the Outer Oslofjord, is an island that's home to 115 criminals, including convicted murderers, rapists, and drug dealers.Yet no barbed-wire-topped walls or...
View ArticleThese Incredible Photos Show The Final Days Of A Major Coalition Base In...
At the beginning of 2014, about 38,000 Americans were still deployed in Afghanistan. That number is set to plunge in the next few months as US and British soldiers leave the site of America's long...
View ArticleStunning Photos Show The Transformation Of Hong Kong Over 50 Years
Author and writer Susan Blumberg-Kason has been interested in Hong Kong since an early age, when she dreamed of the the neon streets and double-decker buses. She soon moved there to study and married a...
View ArticleStriking Photographs Show The Accidental Beauty Of Brooklyn's Toxic Gowanus...
The Gowanus Canal — the 2-mile waterway that connects the factories and industries of inner Brooklyn to the New York Harbor and the rest of the world — is widely considered to be one of the most...
View ArticleAmerica's 12 Scariest Real-Life Haunted Houses
Forget about those hokey attractions at amusement parks. There are real haunted houses spread across America. We're talking about the true-blue, creepy-as-can-be haunted houses. The houses where local...
View ArticleTake A Peek Inside The 'Most Haunted House In The Midwest,' If You Dare
On a rather unassuming street in the otherwise nice town of Alton, Illinois, there lies a sinister estate that was once called the "most haunted place in the Midwest."The McPike Mansion, a beautiful...
View ArticleTour The Cemetery Where New York's History Is Buried
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View ArticleThis Couple Quit Their Cushy Corporate Jobs Five Years Ago To Travel The World
Five years ago, Dalene and Peter Heck were toiling in cushy, lucrative corporate jobs in Alberta, Canada. Life was good, if monotonous. Then came a deluge of personal trials, family illnesses, and...
View ArticleThis Incredible Selfie-Taking Wrist Drone Just Won $500,000
This little machine is taking photography to new heights.Thought it's still being developed, Christoph Kohstall, a doctoral candidate at Stanford University, hopes that Nixie will be the next big thing...
View Article14 Awe-Inspiring Images Of Abandoned Rocket Bases
The US space program was one of the most impressive feats of human ingenuity in history — a series of events that captured the hearts and minds of everyone who witnessed them. The amount of research,...
View ArticleAmericans Voted In Some Pretty Strange Places On Election Day
Voting is an inalienable right in the United States, one every citizen should be able to exercise if they so choose, no matter where they are. While many of us voted on Election Day in a school, civic...
View ArticleInside The Military-Style Obstacle Course That 1.3 Million People Have Tried...
Since Tough Mudder was founded in 2010, 1.3 million people have participated in one of the company's "military style" obstacle courses, which cover 10 to 12 miles of ground and include about 20...
View ArticleWelcome To The Lightning Capital Of The World
LAKE MARACAIBO Venezuela (Reuters) - When Venezuelan environmentalist Erik Quiroga was five years old, his mum showed him a spot on the horizon where magnificent lights appeared from a huge storm most...
View ArticleThese 8 Images Of The Cosmos Will Stop You In Your Tracks
On Saturday, Nov. 8 the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania will launch an art exhibition that is out of this world."Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography" features 100...
View ArticleHere's What The Berlin Wall Looked Like In 1961, The Year It Was Built
RFE/RL archival photos of the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961. All of the photographs in this slide show were all culled from the RFE/RL archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford...
View ArticleCrazy Image Of A Dark Nebula Looks Like It Is Writhing In Agony
Adam Block, manager at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter at the University of Arizona sent us this image of the nebula LBN 438, explaining that this dark cloud of dust glows eerily both from scattered...
View ArticleHere's What Happened When A Bunch Of Desperate Filipino Families Were Forced...
When Typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines last year, it destroyed more than 1 million homes and caused $14 billion of economic damage. This was especially hard for a country where more than a quarter of...
View ArticleWhat It Was Like To Hang With Tech's Biggest Stars During The Golden Days Of...
The 1980s and 1990s were a pivotal time for innovation in Silicon Valley. In 1981, shortly after Apple released the Apple 1, IBM introduced the first PC. A few years later, the World Wide Web would be...
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