Historically, the white smoke was created by burning the ballots together with dry straw. The black smoke was made from the ballots, wet straw, and with the addition of pitch to darken the color.

Here's how the conclave creates black and white smoke and why the Catholic Church began using them to signal whether a new pope has been elected.

Black Clover manga is making a comeback after a considerable hiatus in Spring 2025. The manga is in its final arc and the excitement amongst the fans is immeasurable.

Kyurem has officially gotten the Pokémon Go Fusion treatment, allowing you to combine it with Reshiram and Zekrom to turn it into White Kyurem or Black Kyurem, respectively.

White Kyurem and Black Kyurem are some of the most meta-relevant additions to Pokémon Go in quite some time, with both fusions ranking in the top five of the current Master League meta post-Unova ...

What Really Happened at Truman Capote's Black and White Ball The legendary fête, which took place at the Plaza, has been recreated for Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.

Since the start of the year, two black-and-white bungalows in Singapore have been rented for more than S$30,000 per month.

Oppenheimer director Christopher Nolan has explained why some of the sequences in the biopic were shot in black-and-white.

The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse.