Once one of the world’s most dangerous border crossings, Berlin's symbol of death and division has been turned into a tangible way to experience history

In the international competition, people with physical disabilities put state-of-the-art devices to the test as they race to complete the tasks of everyday life

In 1558, a Venetian named Nicolò Zeno invented an island in the Atlantic Ocean. The rectangular island, dotted with cities with Italian-sounding names like...

A legendary sci-fi author took on James Cameron and The Terminator for alleged copyright theft… and won.

Imagine setting aside a wheel of cheese at your wedding. What would it look like if it were served at your funeral?

The artificial waste could fertilize the ocean and sequester carbon

In 2018, Han Xue-song, then a researcher with the Beijing-based Shan Shui Conservation Center, was in the Sanjiangyuan region on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, surveying black-necked cranes (Grus nigricollis). At an elevation of more than 4000 meters (13,000 feet), this is a windswept land of alpine mea...

Microsoft Excel is arguably the world’s most important piece of business software. Can it also be a sport?

From the Ford Nucleon to the Studebaker-Packard Astral, these vehicles failed to progress past the prototype stage in the 1950s and 1960s

A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the “humongous fungus” – and perhaps not the last

Religious groups own millions of acres of land and thousands of empty buildings across the US. But converting this real estate into affordable homes takes more than just faith.

Of all the wonders of the modern American Chinese menu, crab rangoon is one of the strangest. It consists of cream cheese, sometimes sweetened, plus,...

See what you might’ve died from in 1665 London, using real mortality records.