The man whose job it is to watch paint dry
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...
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...
The bicycle has evolved massively over the last 200 years, as inventors have honed the design into the sleek, lightweight and even electric vehicles...
For 99 years, the land speed record – the highest speed recorded by a person using a vehicle on land – rose steadily. But since the ThrustSCC veh...
Outside the Indiana Statehouse, the state capitol building in Indianapolis, stands a sycamore tree. Planted over 40 years ago, this isn’t any old s...
Since the release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Oppenheimer, millions of people have become familiar with the life of its eponymous subject. T...
A vastly expensive space rover, built to explore Mars, was deemed surplus to requirements by NASA. Out of work, with its life’s purpose seemingly s...
The world’s highest train line is breathtaking in both its sweeping views across the Tibetan Plateau and as a marvel of human engineering. T...