Jan. 9 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1768, Philip Astley, regarded as the "father of the modern circus," staged the first event in an open field at what is now the Waterloo area of London. In ...

Gemstones like precious opal are beautiful to look at and deceivingly complex. As you look at such gems from different angles, you'll see a variety of tints glisten, causing you to question what color ...

In the race to feed artificial intelligence systems with ever more data, one startup has quietly turned to a very old medium: ...

Java 26, due in March with structured concurrency, lazy constants, AOT object caching, and primitive types in patterns, instanceof, and switch, has entered a second rampdown phase for bug fixes. Java ...

For years, “smart” refrigerators have mostly been defined by sticking a giant tablet on the door and calling it a day. However, as CES 2026 approaches, there’s a brand attempting a different angle.

The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 ...