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The Arabic-speaking world's largest art show brings 119 artists to Sharjah, a historic port city in the United Arab Emirates, with made-for-grad-seminar themes such as "seduction" and "dissidence." Most participants, like Decolonizing Architecture, a West Bank -- based group that reimagines the infrastructure of the Israeli occupation, come from the Middle East, but there are also many Western artists, including Sophie Calle.

How's this for instant gratification?

How's this for instant gratification? "If you're shopping for a car and spout out a feature you'd like, the factory should immediately start creating it," says Michael Gruninger, who heads the semantics technologies lab at the University of Toronto

The new "Idol" judge sports a sparkly jumpsuit and bares her abs in the Taj Stansberry-directed music video for "On the Floor"

Transmitting information as pulses of light through fiber-optic cables is the fastest and highest-bandwidth communications technology that exists today. Yet even this technology is being pressed to carry ever-greater quantities of information.

The properties of a material are greatly affected by the electrical and magnetic structure of its constituent ions and electrons. In a ferromagnet, for example, neighboring electron spins point in the same direction, producing a strong external magnetic field

Nearly five percent of study respondents say they fall asleep while driving, around 35 percent said they got less than 7 hours a night

A new study suggests some of Antarctica's ice sheet grows from the bottom up, adding a new wrinkle to efforts to predict how the continent's glaciers will respond to climate change. Radar images show that water under the base of the ice sheet refreezes into ice, creating a new bottom layer that accounts for up to half the total thickness of the ice sheet in some locations

What would you do if you could predict the future? This is not a rhetorical question.

In 1897, H.G. Wells created a fictional scientist who became invisible by changing his refractive index to that of air, so that his body could not absorb or reflect light. More recently, Harry Potter disappeared from sight after wrapping himself in a cloak spun from the pelts of magical herbivores.

Wind farms suffer from a problem: They're built to harness wind, but are still vulnerable to wear-and-tear caused by severely windy conditions. Enter the Record Hill Wind project, a Yale University Endowment-funded 50.6 megawatt wind power plant set to start construction this year in rural Maine

Dear EarthTalk : Isn’t it a waste that we buy water in plastic bottles when it is basically free out of our taps?

If you’ve ever commuted through New York City during rush hour, you’ve probably experienced stress-inducing traffic, over-stuffed subway cars, or delays that don’t care if you’ve given yourself an extra half hour. In 1924 the New York metropolitan area’s population was already large enough to get the Transit Commission thinking of ways to accommodate future traffic needs

Blair River, the 575-pound man who promoted Ariz. grill's unhealthy menu, dies after bout with flu

Ninety-four-year-old actress needs her other leg amputated, but she decided not to have the surgery