With its round amphitheater, The Globe is the most famous playhouse associated with William Shakespeare. But long before ...

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Four stars in the night sky have been formally recognised by their Australian Aboriginal names. The names include ...

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Parliament has officially opened and the Queen’s speech has been delivered.

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Photography has not yet celebrated its 200th birthday, yet in the medium's first century of existence.

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The costumes and fabrics in "Wolf Hall" reflect the very best of contemporary scholarship on the look and ...

Editor's Note: Last month the United States Olympics Committee picked Boston to lead the U.S. bid to host ...

It is now accepted that the war on terror has generated an extensive repertoire of its very own ...

By Akshat Rathi, The Conversation Developing new drugs is hard and expensive. The lengthy process from initial discovery ...

By Michael Rosenberg, University of Western Australia It’s been about ten years since Sony popularised “exergaming” – games ...

By James Smith, University of Edinburgh and Pete Kingsley, University of Edinburgh Since mid-December the nascent South Sudanese ...

In just one night, Santa has to visit millions of homes to deliver presents. If he could travel ...

After finding 240m-year-old fossil dung we, simply put, unearthed what are the oldest-known communal toilets used by animals ...

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, are developing an algorithm that aims to identify whether you’re ...

The internet.org paper heralds an initiative for a commercial consortium—Samsung, Nokia, Qualcomm, Ericsson—to provide low-cost internet to poorest ...

World Bank president Jim Yong Kim recently announced that the Bank would cut coal from its portfolio of ...

Google said it would block face recognition technology in Google Glass. Well, a 23-year-old hacker has news for ...

It may seem somewhat intuitive, but learning through observation is one of the most potent ways humans learn ...

Physicists are now almost certain the curious “Higgs-like particle” revealed at CERN last year is a Higgs boson.

Ancient camels up to 29% larger than their modern-day cousins may have roamed the High Arctic of Canada ...

All forms of science are reliant on facts, hard evidence and statistics to maintain relevance and credibility. But ...

U.S. scientists have successfully used a new NASA telescope to help improve our understanding of how black holes ...

NASA has revealed that its Van Allen Probes have discovered a third, previously unknown, radiation belt around Earth.