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The story behind Google Doodles and the nerd ethos at Google

These scientists are attempting to illuminate, photograph and map some of the darkest unknowns in our universe — dark matter and black holes.

Startup company Hyperloop One just test-drove a technology that may someday make it possible to travel from San Francisco to Los Angeles in only 30 minutes.

Some urban planners say the buzz around “smart cities” is an opportunity to think both enthusiastically and cautiously about the future of development. But while it's the latest trend in urban planning, the fundamental building blocks of cities haven't changed.

Stink bombs, maggots and chicken guns: a writer explores the strange science of humans at war

China is the biggest source of foreign students in the United States. Some head to big cities, while others land in places like Osterville, Massachusetts.

"There’s a lot of talk of healing in Britain this morning, and I’m afraid I don’t believe in healing at this particular moment — I believe in fighting."

UK voters say they want to leave the European Union. There will be economic consequences.

The UK will have two years after officially seceding to negotiate its future relationship with Europe.

Sudanese human rights activist Mohamed Abubakr remembers the first time his sisters were forced to don the hijab after Islamists came into power in the 1990s and implemented Sharia law.

Illegal migration to the US is way down, for a variety of reasons, but one has to do with tough enforcement. Meanwhile in Europe, illegal migration is surging. What lessons can Europe learn from America?

Less than two years ago, Scots voted to remain part of the United Kingdom. Many said they did so because the UK was part of the European Union. But with "Brexit" a possibility, how are those Scots feeling now?

The largest navy base in the world is uniquely vulnerable to rising seas. And it's bringing together neighboring cities to plan for the future.

Iceland is a tiny island nation. But when it comes to social media, it wields the hammer of Gods.

Democratic members of Congress staged a sit-in for more than 24 hours demanding a vote on new gun control legislation — all streamed live on social media.

The case will go back to the lower courts, and the injunction against the expansion of the program to give temporary relief to millions of undocumented immigrations will stand.

If Britain does move to quit a united Europe, it won't be the first time. That dubious honor goes to the Roman province of Britannia in 286 A.D., which broke away from Roman control and set up its own empire, which lasted a decade.

An Italian sports reporter reflects on the Cavaliers' big basketball win: “You feel you belong to that team and that team belongs to you, that feeling is something I’m finding here in Cleveland.”

Puerto Rico is experiencing a brain drain — more than 10,000 Puerto Ricans are emigrating each month, among them doctors, engineers, and other professionals. A small crop are heading in the opposite direction.

Don't panic: North Korea still has to go through “various technical stages” in order to have a missile that could reach Japan or US islands in the Pacific.

One of the big unresolved questions around the referendum is what would happen in Northern Ireland in the event of a Brexit. A new frontier would be created between the EU and the UK, but what would this actually mean?

The medical evacuation was only the third ever staged at the South Pole during the southern hemisphere's winter.

The head coach of the US Men's National Soccer team will keep his job. And it's because the expectations for his team are low.

Mass deportation is a painful issue in Germany given its Nazi past. The last time the country rounded up masses of people was during the Holocaust.

Backers of the UK's "Brexit" are hoping to drum up support by using its national dish. It's all about the number of curry chefs and EU rules.

The song "Gloomy Sunday" was written in 1933, in Hungary, and has been recorded by artists from Billie Holiday to Björk. Because of its subject matter, some artists have refused to record it. But a record label in Berlin asked musicians to record their versions — and the results are anything but gloomy.

All of Britain is on edge waiting to see what happens in the EU referendum on Thursday. Could "Brexit" really happen? And if so, what does it mean for an estimated 1.2 million British citizens currently living in other European countries?

The Dutch have spent centuries trying to hold back both the sea and the big rivers that flow into it. But rising water due to climate change is forcing a new approach for their low-lying country.

Hurricane Sandy devastated lower Manhattan. But rebuilding New York’s waterfront has been complicated. If you were in Europe, the buildings on the lower Manhattan coastline might not have been rebuilt. That’s because European cities vulnerable to flooding have learned to live with it, putting parks next to coastlines that sometimes overflow.

It's partly nostalgia for the type of weapon that safeguarded him in Vietnam, says Luis Quiñonez, a 64-year-old former Marine. Still, the NRA member is not a fan of some of the issues advocated by the NRA.

This week, people in the UK will decide whether they want to stay in the European Union or leave. One hot topic within that discussion is immigration. I went to my old school in London to find out what it's like to be an immigrant or a child of immigrants there in 2016.

Hundreds of bees with "license plates" were released by a London university today. Scientists are hoping that the tags will encourage the public to engage more with the insects.

León Krauze is a Mexican journalist and a Univision news anchor who has asked Mexican soccer fans to stop their homophobic chanting.

"In Spanish, the masculinized version of words is considered as gender-neutral. I don't think its appropriate to assign masculinity as neutral when it isn't."

Increasingly, the Kenyan government has been taking steps to root out terrorists on its own soil, but the crackdown has been marked by disappearances and extrajudicial killings, which has only inflamed the simmering resentments of young men in the coastal city of Mombasa.

President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.

There seems to be no end to the indignities in rapidly failing Venezuela. It's the start of the Western Hemisphere's own humanitarian crisis, says an AP correspondent in Caracas.

If voters choose to depart from the EU, Britain will take a "leap into the unknown."

It’s illegal. It’s also deadly. But at graduations, birthdays, weddings, funerals — even when a politician just speaks on TV — firing guns into the air is a favorite way to celebrate.

Milad Khawam, a Syrian refugee in Berlin, describes his music as a "schizophrenia of feelings." It's the mix of emotions, he says, of someone who has left everything behind and is starting over.

After two and a half millennia of being ruled by men, Rome was Monday under new management.

When it comes to preparing for sea-level rise in coastal cities, the Dutch have a big head start on the rest of the world. And their best array of tools may be on display in and around the port city of Rotterdam.

As Iraqi forces drive ISIS out of Fallujah, thousands of civilians have finally been able to escape. But the camps they are arriving at, in 120-degree heat, are "nightmarish." Some people are even dying in them.

Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, many of them children from Syria. In “Everything Will Be Alright,” Kirsten Boie writes the story of one Syrian family that fled bombings in Homs for safety near Hamburg, Germany.

Juan Felipe Herrera's poem on America, post-Charleston and post-Orlando. "We shall not forget U Orlando," he writes.

Istanbul authorities said on Friday they had banned the annual gay pride parade set for June 26 to "safeguard security and public order" after a string of bombings around Turkey over the past year, some of them blamed on the Islamic State group, others claimed by Kurdish militants.

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New York fashion week started during one of the world's darkest hours.

“The reason we don't understand [animals] better is because we're not smart enough.”