Why are cell phones illegal in this quiet American town?
Green Bank is a small town in West Virginia with a population of just 141. It’s an innocuous little place, situated in the peaceful woodlands and r...
Green Bank is a small town in West Virginia with a population of just 141. It’s an innocuous little place, situated in the peaceful woodlands and r...
Have you ever thought about using an extra thumb? Perhaps you could play the guitar faster, or hold an extra tool as you continue to work? Well think...
Seventy-one years ago today, London was plunged into the ‘Great Smog’. Over the course of the next five days, some 4,000 people would die as a dir...
They might be less famous than their ground-dwelling cousins, but this is the tree kangaroo. Native to the rainforests of New Guinea and also found on...
Point Nemo, or the oceanic pole of inaccessibility, is the place in the world where you are furthest from land. There’s really nothing there except p...
Meet the indri lemur, also known as a babakoto. This funny-looking creature is the largest lemur in the world and sadly it's critically endangered. ...
It might be a famous idiom for something mind-numbingly dull, but imagine if when people asked you what you did for a living, your honest response...
Since the 1990s, an area of northern Thailand has provided refuge for injured and rescued elephants. Open to the public, the Elephant Nature Park is a...
The Carolina Reaper has been usurped. Long known as the world’s hottest chili, it has this month been dethroned by the mysteriously named Pepper X, w...
There are plenty of fish in the sea – an estimated 3.5 trillion of them, it turns out – but only one can claim to be the deepest dwelling of them all...
Over the summer months, sea turtles crawl ashore in the southeastern US to lay their eggs on the same beach they themselves were once born. Humans...
Meet Jason Arday, Cambridge University’s youngest-ever Black professor who defied all odds in pursuit of his academic ambitions.Jason's remarkable j...