Happiness Report: Norway Is The Happiest Place On Earth

The World Happiness Report measures "subjective well-being" - how happy the people are, and why. Denmark, Iceland, Switzerland and and Finland round out the top five, while...

Nobody Is Sure What Caused a Mysterious Radiation Spike Across Europe

Nuclear scientists are struggling to determine the source of small amounts of nuclear radiation that bloomed over Europe throughout January.
France's IRSN institute, t...

No Dark Sarcasm In The Classroom

“The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.”&nb...

Watch Researchers Use Sound To Move Multiple Objects With Precision

A team of researchers at Aalto University in Finland has devised a method for the controlled movement of multiple objects using a single sound source, a development which m...

The Best Countries For Gender Equality May Also Have A Domestic Violence Problem

The Nordic nations are frequently held up as countries that have come as close to any in creating true gender equality. Case in point, in the World Economic Forum's 2015 Ge...

Portugal Runs Entirely On Renewable Energy For Four Consecutive Days

Portugal has hit a significant milestone in its bid to become entirely reliant on renewable energy sources after running for 107 hours without using any fossil fuels. From ...

Climate change is killing our Mother Earth

In their own words: indigenous people from Canada, Finland, the US, Guatemala and Peru tell their climate stories From Alaska to Peru, indigenous people across the world ar...

Maternal Deaths Falling, But Not Fast Enough: WHO

“There is still one woman dying every one and a half to two minutes somewhere in the world … Because she is trying to give life,” said Marleen Temmerman,...

CAMP 14: TOTAL CONTROL ZONE

Synopsis

Born inside a North Korean prison camp as the child of political prisoners, Shin Dong-hyuk was raised in a world where all he knew was pun...