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As well as being a superb wine stopper, cork is a unique and versatile material. Cork was used by ancient ...

Journalist Zakee Kuduro explores the science of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and why an understanding of the fundamentals of physics and knowing ...

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce ...

Hikikomori is a form of severe social withdrawal amongst adolescents and young adults that was first described in Japan in ...

In Kathmandu many cows are abandoned when they are of no more use to their owners. One man is saving ...

Chimpanzees show empathy and altruism just like humans do - we can even learn from how they behave, explains anthropologist ...

Why one man is helping dogs, goats and even eagles. Video by Oscar Durand & Özge Sebzeci. For more videos ...

From a young age, the media we consume shapes our identity, the way we think and the way we view ...

In 1951, Henrietta Lacks, a black woman from Baltimore, USA, died of cancer. However, cells taken from her body without ...

During World War Two, the Soviet Air Forces created a women-only regiment that flew cropper planes to bomb the enemy ...