Across the pond, the oldest river in Europe is thought to be the Meuse, which flows 950 kilometers (590 miles) through three ...

Found just a little over 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique, the island of Madagascar is not only the ...

Can you train animals to be spies? What is a fossil? All this and more exclusively in the latest issue of our e-magazine.

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The rings of Uranus were only discovered in 1977 and the outer rings, named for the Greek letters μ and ν (mu and nu), have ...

This is an enormous number of possible worlds. Of them, 411 were seen only in a single transit in front of their star, so the ...

However, because quartz crystal is somewhat rare, the study authors speculate that it may have held some sort of “ritual, ...

Work out the math on that timeline, and you come to an unexpected conclusion: that Cleopatra lived closer to us today than ...

But new research suggests something more fundamental may also be at play: the shape of the human skull itself. The rest of ...

The water is ultrapure, a crucial requirement to perform the sophisticated work that goes on there. We have come across ...

Within Lake Kivu you can find some 300 cubic kilometers (72 cubic miles) of dissolved carbon dioxide – multiple orders of ...