Weird blobs near earth’s core may have been dragged from the surface

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

EL SALVADOR

IT WAS LATE MORNING, BUT ALREADY HOT enough to warrant wearing a sun hat and sticking to the shade. I was in a quiet part of Andalucía, looking at an archaeological treasure that I visit regularly. Ho

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How our knowledge of these worlds beyond the Solar System has exploded in the last three decades

It’s 20-something degrees and my lungs are burning. “Don’t look up to see how far you’ve still to go; take it one step at a time,” I tell myself, approaching two-thirds of the way up Puy Mary. It’s wh