A massive blob deep under Hawaii seems to be ...

The elevator pitch made this trip sound very glamorous, but it’s nearing 43ºC and I’ve been stooping around in the desert for over an hour, eyes fixed on the arid earth. We’re in the Turkana Basin in

After a decade and a half of excavations, archæologists have uncovered the naturally mummified remains of well over 100 indigenous Yakuts of north-eastern Siberia, one of the coldest places on Earth.

Thanks to a pair of eagle-eyed dog walkers, ...

THE saying ‘let the train take the strain’ is particularly apt in Italy. Throughout the country the rail network is comprehensive and its high-speed train system impressive, which means taking the tra

The ‘gateway to the West’ has for years become a relative sanctuary from the onslaught on Ukraine’s frontline. But the city and region’s long history has seen it at the centre of countless conquests