US Navy Warships are Really Starting to Look Like Star Destroyers
This beast could have easily been designed at an Imperial Navy shipyard.
This beast could have easily been designed at an Imperial Navy shipyard.
The Beatles' iconic Abbey Road album cover photo is 45 years old today. But, as this clip of photoshoot outtakes shows, it took a fair few attempts to get that classic image just right.
Dining on alien planets might be a way off, but at least when we do there will be salad — because we've already developed the means to grow lettuce on other worlds.
A programme in Singapore lets seniors swipe a card at an intersection so the signal will give them extra time to cross.
This animated short by Nina Paley — in the tradition of the best Monty Python music skits — might not be an orthodox history lesson, but it's an accurate depiction of the horrible 6,000-year bloodshed in the region of Palestine, with dozens of tribes and nations fighting each other to claim ownership of that land.
Announced just in time for the kick-off of the 2014/15 season.
This country.
The BBC has been rolling out its redesigned iPlayer since March, and today sees it push the new-look catch-up player to a significant number of new devices.
Escape From the Rock is an early morning athletic event where hundreds of swimmers decide it's a good idea to navigate a course that only three prisoners at the maximum security prison ever managed.
This "original" Predator costume is up for sale on Gumtree. Can you hear it? "Come on... Come on! Do it! Do it! Come on. Come on! Buy me! I'm here! Buy me! I'm here! Buy me! Come on! Buy me! I'm here! Come on! Do it now!"
Ketchup is a great sauce to have in the kitchen with a range of weird and wonderful uses. Here are some of the things you never knew tomato ketchup could do
These smart building blocks are made of flexible plastic and stuffed with fluidics channels and electronics, designed to build simple, adaptable robots in double-quick time.
Prescription for a Mr Kurzweil?
The classic book about the perils of eating too many Mars bars and being a pushy dad is about to be re-released in the Penguin Modern Classics series, with a new cover image to supposedly appeal to the adult market. As long as you don't mind looking like a paedo reading it on the bus.
The World Health Organisation has declared the Ebola outbreak an international public health emergency — though it is currently not recommending bans on travel or trade.
There's the appreciation of a friend's work and then there's The Talented Mr Ripley. She had become the Matt Damon to my Jude Law. Seriously, I'm never getting in a boat with her.
