Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau is housed at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, France. Dante and Virgil in Hell (1850) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau was inspired by the poem, The Divine Comedy (c. 1308 – 1321) by the Italian Dante Alighieri, specifically from the part titled

This movie of the March 6, 2012 X5.4 flare was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) in the 171 and 131 Angstrom wavelength. One of the most dramatic features is the way the entire surface of the sun seems to ripple with the force of the eruption. This movement comes from something called...

How big can they get? What's the largest so far detected? Where does an 18 billion solar mass black hole hide? We've never seen them directly, yet we know they are there. Lurking within dense star clusters or wandering the dust lanes of the galaxy. Where they prey on stars. Or swallow planets whole....

A Path Appears, from the creative team that brought you the groundbreaking series Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, premieres January 2015 on PBS. The three-part documentary series follows Pulitzer Prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn alon...

New in 2015: Thrill seekers will be pleased to know that Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio will be unveiling the world’s first 4-D roller coaster in 2015. What exactly does that mean, you ask? The theme park described ["BATMAN: The Ride"] as the ‘most exciting thrill ride’ in its 22-year histo

Vietnam was divided politically into two rival states, North Vietnam (officially the Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (officially the Republic of Vietnam). Conflict between the two sides intensified in what is known as the Vietnam War with heavy intervention by the United States on ...

Twenty-seven years ago, Sally Ride became the first American woman in
space on Jun 18, 1983. She accomplished this historic milestone when
she flew aboard Space Shuttle Challenger as a mission specialist for
the six-day STS-7 mission. Ride, a southern California native, was also
a mission specia...

The BeauEr, An Expandable Trailer, Is Revolutionizing The Camper Industry. Designer Beauer believes in a concept which he coined, "movehoming," which refers to the freedom of "living wherever one wants," as he told the SF Globe, spending a few months in one area, then driving to a region with a mor...