A two-metre-long turtle has reportedly washed onto a beach in Calella, near Barcelona on the northeast coast of Spain. The apparently dead leatherback turtle, which reportedly weighs 700kg, was filmed being removed from the beach...
The Great Wall of China is one of the oldest, largest, and most celebrated achievements of human ingenuity. The archaeological survey found that the entire wall is 8 852 km and...
The chimes of Big Ben will rarely be heard during the next four years. It is not for the first time the iconic landmark has required maintenance. In 1958 Big...
The Royal Bank of Scotland’s brand new polymer £10 note featuring pioneering Scottish scientist Mary Somerville is to be issued on 4 October. The note will have the secure features put in...
Today, the typical American grocery store might devote an entire aisle to breakfast cereal, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, boxed cereals were an invention of the 20th...
Spanish designer Fran Silvestre is making some of the best houses in the world by not giving up on simplicity. Silvestre and Alfaro Hofmann have pioneered a holistic approach to...
The education in India has a rich and interesting history. It is believed that in the ancient days, the education was imparted orally by the sages and the scholars and...
Rick Hale makes art out of large-scale wooden daisy wheels, worm gears, grasshopper escapements, and more. Rick Hale is a self-taught clockmaker based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, building phenomenal large-scale clocks...
As early as 1096, teaching had already started in Oxford. By 1249, the University of Oxford had grown into a full-fledged university, replete with student housing at the school’s three...
