Which marvel of nature can build a 2 metre Orb Web with a silk that ranks as the World's toughest natural fibre? - The answer is the Darwin's Bark Spider and this real life "Spider Woman", no bigger than a thumbnail has baffled scientists with her web of steel.

Did you know people have tried to cure homosexuality with forced cuddling, horse stroking, and monkey testicles? Let's take a disturbing tour of the last hundred years of insane ex-gay cures, some of which are still being practiced by quacks to this day. Gay Therapy Conversion is illegal in several ...

Super-ambitious architectural projects that did not get built Throughout history, there have been many fantastical and outlandish urban projects that never made it past the drawing board. From Hitler's dream of a new Berlin to a sealed dome over Manhattan, here are some of the most incredible.

Here’s how Leonardo Da Vinci brought the Mona Lisa to life. Leonardo tested in himself and in the cadaver how each muscle of the cheek could move the lips. Mona Lisa seems miraculously alive, conscious both of us and of herself.

For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, to hear "Reach for the Stars" by musician will.i.am after it wa...

This wide-reaching interview with David Hockney has been filmed especially for the exhibition: David Hockney: Current Displaying his characteristic wit, the artist himself provides critical insights into the experience of the exhibition and reflects on his working methods, his views on art and art...

60 Minutes is the longest running news magazine show in U.S. television history. In this segment Valerie Plame speaks for the first time after four years of the start of the Plame AFair. She was a covert CIA agent who was looted in July 2003 because her husband was not in agreement with the adminis...

As the only person ever to be White House national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time, Henry Kissinger exercised a control over U.S. foreign policy that has rarely been equaled by anyone who was not president.

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS unveils the epic beginning of the X-Men saga -- and a secret history of the Cold War and our world at the brink of nuclear Armageddon. As the first class discovers, harnesses, and comes to terms with their formidable powers, alliances are formed that will shape the eternal war bet...

With a history dating back more than four hundred years, ballet has progressed from Renaissance court pageantry to royal entertainment to full-fledged performing art. It is often misunderstood as a form of dance meant for girls and women only, but nothing could be further from the truth! To unders