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 ...

HAPPY CHANUKAH 2016 FROM TECHNION-ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY A speedy fantasy to light a menorah on the moon. Lecture halls spread knowledge, but also explode the imagination. Look what happens during this astrophysics lecture close to Hanukkah!

Technion students Eyal Cohen and Tomer Wassermann from the Mechanical Engineering faculty and Matan Orian and Dvir Dukhan of Industrial Engineering and Matan take on the challenge to build a Rube Goldberg machine that lights the Chanukah menorah. Hanukkah is the holiday of miracles and here is anoth...

Meet the mind behind the masterpieces. Antonio Banderas is Picasso: Genius. As one of the most influential and celebrated artists of the 20th century, Pablo Picasso imagined and interpreted the world in new and unorthodox ways.

GENDER REVOLUTION will explore the complexities of gender in everyday life. To better understand this complex social and scientific issue, Katie Couric travels across the U.S. to talk with scientists, psychologists, activists, authors and families. Gender and sexuality can be fluid, and today transg...

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, hello Chanukah! Our last homage to a Piano Man went so well, we thought we'd celebrate one of our most joyous holidays with a tribute to another timeless entertainer, the great Sir EltonJohn himself. ChagSameach! You don't have to be a LatkeMan to join in -- just grab you...

2017 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year Contest.

Grandiose illusion presents some of the grandiose photographs which were part of the National Geographic Contests in 2010.Grandiose Illusion captures in still photography at its best with a single click, including a wide range of beautiful landscapes and nature as well as modern buildings and natura...

National Geographic explorer Kevin McLean studies and documents little-known arboreal mammals by setting up video camera traps in neotropical forest canopies. On a recent trip to Panama, Kevin took his long-term boyfriend, Dan, on his first climb, where they both were in for a surprise.

Photographer Mattias Klum experiences a face-to-face encounter with a lioness... a little too close for comfort.