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We've rounded up some of Blomkamp's work here, and get some advice on moviemaking from the director himself. Now, Neill Blomkamp is the acclaimed director of sci-fi flick District 9 and the upcoming Elysium. But not so long ago he was also an artist at visual effects firm The Embassy, which co ...

This new finding confirms the particle exists. Physicists have observed what they're confident is the first known particle with four quarks. This isn't the first time the Belle detector, housed with the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization in Japan, has appeared to observe a four-quar ...

Sympathies to the researcher who had to listen to amateur impressions all day. Scientists have identified what happens in our brain when we mimic a foreign accent or impersonate another person, according to a recent study from the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. The researchers, led by psy ...

Let this map of U.S. states scaled by volume above sea level guide you to your water-damaged, dystopian home of the future. Thanks to climate change, our oceans could rise by as much as 20 or 30 feet in the coming centuries. You can either build an ark (which sounds like an awful lot of work) ...

The Gateway follows a DB Schenker freight train as it journeys 3025 km across Kazakhstan.

In a widely watched House hearing, officials argued NSA surveillance programs save lives . CNN's Dana Bash reports.

Wildfire threatens hundreds of homes in California as the season is off to an early start.

President Obama is currently Berlin where he is meeting right now with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

A man in London explains how he nearly missed being the victim of an exploding sidewalk.

This cheetah was walking with his 2 siblings when he wandered among wildebeest. Like a buffet, he must have thought.

This cheetah perched on top of a termite hill striking a terrific pose.

Three cheetah stop for some water.

While his brothers found a place to easily cross the stream this fellow jumped.

These three cheetahs took a time out from stalking to check the scenery.

Food waste is a problem in many parts of the world, but nowhere more than the United States, where one-quarter to one-half of all food goes into the garbage. That represents a waste not only of food but also of water, air, energy, and, of course, dollars. Step inside for ways in which Americans ...

Though perhaps most widely appreciated as obscure daubs of paint in Impressionist Claude Monet’s renderings of his pond at Giverny, water lilies are as, if not more, breath-taking up close and in person. Check out some photos from Britannica research editor Richard Pallardy after the jump.

June 14 is celebrated as Flag Day in the United States, a national holiday to commemorate the date in 1777 when the country approved the design for its first flag. Britannica marks this occasion with a look at flags from around the globe and some of the unique traits that set them apart.

Of all domestic animals, the character of the cat is the most equivocal and suspicious. He is kept, not for any amiable qualities, but purely with a view to banish rats, mice, and other noxious animals from our houses, granaries, &c.

Leroy Robert Page earned a weighted nickname a century ago this year, and thus did Satchel Page (later Paige) emerge. He would soon become one of the greatest pitchers ever to play the game of baseball.