At 8:30 p.m. on the night of August 22, 1888, a "fireball" struck a hill near what's now Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The blast ...

The spindly stems of the parasitic species - which appear bleach-white because they lack chlorophyll - emerge each summer in remote shady patches of forests across much of the United States.The plant ...

Feilden Fowles has led the transformation of the Natural History Museum’s underused gardens into a biologically diverse green space, writes Aoi Phillips. Photography by Jim Stephenson ...

While government, energy, tech and banking leaders held a summit, protestors warned of worsening climate pollution and a ...

Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the ...

One of the greatest revolutions in the field of pain medication was the isolation of morphine from the opium poppy in the ...

Genetics researchers have sequenced the genomes of Greenland sled dogs, shedding light on both the development of this breed ...

Indeed, by 1077 the Tapestry had arrived in Normandy, and was displayed at Bayeux Cathedral. It has remained in France ever since, although it may have had a narrow escape during the French Revolution ...