Oscar Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 December 5, 1926), is the French painter who was the initiator, leader, and unswerving advocate of the Impressionist style. In his mature works, Monet developed his method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in series, changing canvases with the ligh...

At high water in the afternoon of Sunday 3 June 2012, up to a thousand boats muster on the River Thames in preparation for Her Majesty The Queen to lead the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant. It will be one of the largest flotillas ever assembled on the river. Rowed boats and working boats and pleasure...

NASA May Have Found the First Planet in Another Galaxy. “We know we are making an exciting and bold claim so we expect that other astronomers will look at it very carefully,” study co-author Julia Berndtsson of Princeton University said in a statement. “We think we have a strong argument, and this

Just in time for the country’s 243rd birthday on Thursday, Google Doodle has rolled out a slightly addictive interactive animation that captures some quintessential American interests: baseball, food, and some good old-fashioned competition.

Shedding the restrictions of seasonal weather patterns, overcoming transportation challenges and enhancing yields - the growing trend of “vertical farming” could herald the future of food production.

This is a more modern version of Smokey the Bear PSA, the longest running and most effective campaign for the prevention of forestal fires in the USA. It was produced in the 1990's.

Latest updates say 26 police officers have been injured and 43 people arrested as violent riots flared up in North London. Two patrol cars, a building and a double-decker bus were torched as rioters clashed with officers on SaturdayAugust 6, 2011 in front of the Tottenham Police Station, where peop...

The recent advances in state estimation, perception, and navigation algorithms have significantly contributed to the ubiquitous use of quadrotors for inspection, mapping, and aerial imaging. To further increase the versatility of quadrotors, recent works investigated the use of an adaptive morpholog...

Pencil Art: Using pencils as canvas! All artists use pencils to draw and paint over their canvas, but this artist creates beautiful works of art the other way around: using the pencils as canvas! A self-taught illustrator, he moved from the area of stencil art to exhibit his illustration work worldw...

Although Escher did not have mathematical training—his understanding of mathematics was largely visual and intuitive—Escher's work had a strong mathematical component, and more than a few of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triang