On stage at Cannes Lions, game designer and author Jane McGonigal showcased research demonstrating the power that gaming can have in the real world.

Career expert Nicole Williams gives us some simple but useful tips for making a good first impression at a job interview.

Sigrid uses common household objects to explain two ways to pronounce the letter A.

Over the last two decades, the environmental crisis of Florida’s Lake Okeechobee has continued to worsen and dominate local headlines. The lake is the nation’s second largest freshwater lake, but due to years of missteps, it’s been producing massive amounts of toxic algae that have closed beaches, destroyed businesses and poisoned swimmers.

They can flow like a liquid and bounce back like a solid. Masses of fire ants show a duality that intrigues physicists.

Sigrid explains three ways to talk about the future and tells us about some of her new year's resolutions.

George Clooney discusses his long lasting partnership with Nespresso and what makes it his coffee of choice.

The British Empire spread across the world starting in the late sixteenth century, bringing back many new words and phrases that were introduced into the English language.

Although no one will ever be completely certain why it occurred, many things have been learned about both species from the attack.

Nicole Williams goes through a couple of items you should include when writing your resume, as well as some things that are simply overrated.

Happy New Year to everybody on our beautiful planet Earth from the International Space Station!

Justin Bieber shows BBC Radio 1 how he spends his free time at home.

How do sharks communicate? Particularly, how would the sharks around the Farallones all know exactly when to evacuate? Scientists who are working on "shark repellent" may have an explanation.

Though most might be unaware, the US state of California was named after a place that doesn't exist outside of literature, similar to Narnia. "California" comes from a novel written in the Spanish Golden Age.

Mayda del Valle, a poet whose work has helped to raise the bar in poetry circles all over the world, performs her piece "a faith like yours" at the White House Evening of Poetry, Music, and the Spoken Word.