Of all the classic silent films that preceded the advent of movies with sound, maybe none was more influential as Metropolis, the 1927 film by Fritz Lang set in a futuristic urban dystopia.

Reading difficulty can be measured according to Flesch-Kincaid grade levels; if they rate a passage at higher grade level, the more difficult the passage is to comprehend.

An innovative filmmaker, Ray Harryhausen's legacy includes bringing realistic dinosaurs and a variety of other gigantic, threatening creatures to the big screen.

The Grand Canyon, which was previously thought to have been carved out by the Colorado river, was eroded away by a lava flow, according to a newer theory, took on its current form at an earlier date 6 to 7 million years ago.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations was established to draw its member nations into a closer economic and political relationship; it will strengthen its charter someday, but only if leading members, including Singapore, Indonesia, and Thailand, were to place pressure on the smaller members to yield to the common interest.

Despite many peoples' impulse to go straight to the refrigerator, the best way to store an eggplant is the placing of it in a vented bowl, and, with intent to use it as soon as possible, it is kept in a cool spot away from direct sunlight.

Most people's view of the sheep is an animal of less-than-average intelligence, a symbol of herd-driven foolishness; nevertheless, it ranks equally with monkeys in certain cognitive tests.

Using a 64-beam laser to create a detailed 3D map of its environment, the self-driving car prototype, although already obsolete, proved as equipped for navigating any conditions roads could put in front of it.

Although it won't increase bank revenues to upgrade the operating systems running the nation's ATMs, it is the risks involved in failing to update the software that make doing nothing more costly.

Species that are colorful and aggressive in appearance, like, for example, the deadly coral snake are so numerous that in general predators are deterred as much by nonpoisonous imitation as by the true appearance of poisonousness.

The evolutionary theory of punctuated equilibrium maintains that the characteristics that are possessed by any given species developed over long periods of stability interrupted by short periods of rapid change.

Total cloud inversion, which looks like a sea of clouds, occurs above the Grand Canyon about once every decade but had rarely been captured on film until recently.

That Buddha was born earlier than previously had been thought is not exactly proved by the recent discovery of a Buddhist shrine, but in ascribing design elements of the shrine to a factor other than an earlier existence of Buddha, the man's influence will have to be reconsidered.

A data software company founded this year claims given access to a client company's database that it can provide various types of analysis of unstructured data within various specified levels of security controls.

Alongside Petra and the Great Wall of China as one of the seven wonders of the modern world, the Taj Mahal, which was constructed to memorialize Mumtaz Mahal, the third wife of emperor Shah Jahan, after her passing took more than 12 years of thousands of engineers' labor to build.

According to one biographer, Steve Jobs's passion for the details of music, philosophy, and other fields in the humanities were critical to his success, influencing his sense of design as much as his technological savvy did.

In 2004 poor global weather forced the company to reduce its stockpile of oil to about 1,000 barrels, about 20 percent less than those of the 2003 reserves.

In the famous thought experiment that inspired the theory of relativity, Einstein asked himself whether a beam of light would look the same to an observer moving alongside the beam at the same speed as an observer who was stationary.

Assuming that the new drug is approved, it will remain to be seen whether it decreases post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans after it is widely administered.

Although virtually any animal or plant records older than about 10,000 years old are typically termed fossils, the type of tissue and the external substance determines whether a particular specimen is a trace fossil, derived fossil, subfossil, or something else.