If two hands can make a piano sing, imagine the creative symphony of a dozen charismatic pianists. The international conference "TEDMED 2013: The Future of Health and Medicine is Here" took place on April 2013 at the John Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The broad mix of di...

Battleship is an upcoming 2012 science fiction naval war film based on the game of the same name. The film is being directed by Peter Berg and will be released by Universal Pictures. Starring in the film are Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker, Rihanna and Liam Neeson. Battleship 201

Johns Hopkins University Epidemiologist Gypsyamber D'Souza explains how the United States can reach coronavirus herd immunity and what happens if that goal is missed. Plummeting vaccination rates have turned what officials hoped would be the “last mile” of the coronavirus immunization campaign into

We visited Thailand in the Fall of 2018 as part of a three week trip on a cruise ship throughout Asia. Thailand is a Southeast Asian country. It's known for tropical beaches, opulent royal palaces, ancient ruins and ornate temples displaying figures of Buddha. In Bangkok, the capital, an ultramoder...

It is amazing to observe millions of butterflies overwintering in Mexico.

Stephen Ridley - COVID-19 has got the world on lockdown, quarantined. Coronavirus seems to have affected us all. In these moments, I turn to music. To the simple, timeless power of song. London has a lot of public pianos. Since the coronavirus hit, and COVID lockdown happened, they've been locked...

IPCC Fifth Assessment Report - Working Group II - Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.

Numbering as few as 250 individuals, the rarest of African apes has scarcely been observed in the wild, even by those committed to studying their behavior. But now, for one of the first times ever, the Cross River gorilla's haunting beauty and incredible strength have been caught on film in the wild...

These amazing pictures from the United States show a wall of dust moving through the city of Phoenix in Arizona. Sandstorms like this happen during the region's monsoon season, which is underway. They occur over desert land and can reach thousands of feet into the air, spurred by strong winds. The d...

One of the most passionate speeches of the opening day of the U.N. climate change conference in Paris was delivered by Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak. Thousands of residents from the Marshall Islands have already fled the Pacific island state, becoming climate change refugees because o