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...

One Direction – Kiss You (Alt Edit)Follow on Spotify - One Direction, often shortened to 1D, are an English-Irish pop boy band formed in London in 2010. The group is composed of Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, and previously Zayn Malik until his departure from the group in Ma

Forty world leaders are taking part in a climate change summit hosted by US President Joe Biden. Alice Hill, David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, shared her thoughts on the meeting.

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...

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 ...

Assi and his husband got married in Barcelona, afraid of homophobic extended family members.

He said his dad was still suspicious of their relationship up until the wedding. ‘Something in him changed that day,’ he said. ‘He saw what he couldn’t see before. He felt the love that he had never felt

Lights have been a very important element of many festivals. Even before the discovery of electricity, rather more so because of the lack of it, lighting lamps or lanterns was a significant part of celebrations. In fact, some festivals are known as festivals of lights. There are many such light fest...

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...

On May 25, 2012 SpaceX made history when the Dragon spacecraft became the first privately developed vehicle in history to successfully attach to the International Space Station. Previously only four governments -- the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Space Agency -- had achieved this fe...

This exclusive time-lapse footage shows an entire U-2 plane being disassembled by Lockheed Martin technicians. Every U-2 plane gets revised part by part, repainted, and reassembled every 4,700 flight hours. More than 40,000 rivets and 1,800 individual parts, plus the fuselage, get inspected—and repa