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.

This is a slideshow of an image of the CITEC building in Bielefeld processed by Google's neural network Deep Dream. The output is zoomed and fed back to the network as a new input a hundred times.

Experts say the “bayou city” is so vulnerable to floods — not only because it is low-lying — because explosive growth in the metro area has added 25 percent more pavement in the last 15 years, replacing soil-rich wetlands that could absorb water with concrete suburbia.

Millions of people are facing a long, difficult road to recovery after Irma’s week-long deadly rampage through the Caribbean and southeastern United States.

Giraffes are beloved of evolutionary biologists for a number of reasons. They are, of course, the tallest of all living animals, and that elegant neck is the primary reason why. The origin of that beautiful neck has also been attributed to sexual selection. This is where the sex lives of giraffes ge...

Since 1990, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been creating strandbeesten (Dutch for "beach beasts", singular strandbeest), which are moving kinetic structures, sometimes wind-propelled, that resemble walking animals, described by Jansen as artificial life. All of his models are based on a system of tr...

Incredible technology from Israel. Lionel Messi, Cam My Eye. Hats off to scientists for inventing. We harness the power of innovative AI assistive technology to support people with low vision, visual impairments, and reading fatigue, with wearable and handheld devices.

For over 30 years, the Australian Firefighters Calendar has been bringing abs and good cheer into homes—and for a good cause! Since its beginnings in ’93, the project has raised of $3.4 million for charitable organizations like the Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Safe Haven Animal Rescue. As

Thousands of metres up the vertiginous slopes of Shifou Mountain in Hunan Province, China, a team of workers, operating with hardly any safety measures, are building a footpath.

Hanukkah, which begins at sundown on December 23 in 2019, is one of the most joyous of Jewish holidays. Learn more about the traditions and history behind the Festival of Lights known as Hanukkah (also spelled Chanukah). The celebration lasts for eight nights and days each year around the same time ...