Canary Girls: The World War One Women Who Turned Yellow

Aug 1, 2018

Munition workers in a shell warehouse at National Shell Filling Factory No.6, Chilwell, Nottinghamshire in 1917. Photo credit: Imperial War...

Siberia’s Cold Storage Ice Tunnels

Jul 31, 2018

The Yamal Peninsula in northwest Siberia stays covered in permafrost all throughout the year, and while the winters are chilly, summers are ...

London’s Secret Nuclear Reactor

Jul 30, 2018

For more than 30 years, between 1962 and 1996, a nuclear reactor sat at the heart of London tantalizingly close to a busy thoroughfare and t...

The Great Texas Train Crash at Crush

Jul 28, 2018

Some publicity stunts can be complete train wrecks. Like that one time in 1613 when a real cannon was used to spice up the production of Sha...

China’s Waterfall Skyscraper

Jul 26, 2018

In a country where new buildings rise up every single day, it’s a challenge for architects to come up with original designs that stand out a...

Trona Pinnacles

Jul 25, 2018

This unique geological feature, called Trona Pinnacles, are located about 10 miles south of the mining community of Trona, in California’s d...

Demonstration of a Cantilever Bridge

Jul 25, 2018

A cantilever bridge is a bridge whose main elements are cantilevers—structures that are anchored at only one end while the other end floats ...

The Domes of Fabedougou

Jul 24, 2018

These weathered rocks in the village of Fabedougou, near Banfora, in south-western Burkina Faso resemble the sandstone towers of Bungle Bung...

Cropmarks: How Dry Weather Can Reveal Hidden Archaeological Sites

Jul 24, 2018

Across Europe, and the world at large, there are a large number of archeological sites yet to be discovered. Many of these ancient settlemen...

Battle of Kohima: The Greatest World War Two Battle Everyone Forgot

Jul 23, 2018

Perched on top of a mountain ridge, some 5,000 feet up in the remote hilly terrain of northeast India, lies the town of Kohima, in what is n...