Yet tucked away among the usual high street retailers is Manchester's newest museum. It's a bit of a strange location for ...

Whistler's tank troop came under heavy enemy fire. As he dismounted his Cromwell tank, attempting to direct his men or perhaps establish radio contact with headquarters amid the chaos, a German mortar ...

You may need a PhD to properly appreciate Google's latest Doodle, but we're giving it the old college try, all the same.

Does this optical illusion show a rabbit and then a duck, a duck and then a rabbit, only one of the two, or neither of them?

But this mind-boggling optical illusion might be his most bizarre appearance yet. At first glance, the picture looks like an ordinary photograph of young women smiling and drinking coffee beside a ...

Escape reality by stepping into a world of wacky photo ops and optical illusions. The immersive experience – which has already captured the minds of 1.5 million yearly visitors worldwide – is housed ...

What are the best city building games? There’s nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon of city building games. We’ve lost countless hours lining up buildings just how we like ...

Thus was born the concept of "optical trapping," or "optical tweezers" – systems of lasers and optics that can hold micrometer-scale objects steady against Brownian motion. Experiments done with such ...

Buildings are rising all over the city, emblems of economic growth. But an earthquake that sent one crashing to the ground has stirred fears about building safety. By Damien Cave Muktita Suhartono ...

Scores of people are missing in the ruins of a high-rise building that was felled by the quake in Myanmar. Signs of life raised hopes on Saturday, but there was no update on survivors. By Muktita ...

A building which was under construction in Bangkok, Thailand, collapsed after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar. The catastrophic earthquake hit neighboring country Myanmar, which created a ...

A shallow 7.7 magnitude quake hit central Myanmar and was followed minutes later by a 6.4 magnitude aftershock, toppling buildings and rupturing roads. Here, across the border in Thailand ...