Scientists are working to understand the curious phenomena of red sprites, green ghosts and blue jets high above ...

A bomb-cratered runway and crumbling control tower are relics of when a remote village in Asia was one of the world’s most ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

The International Day of the Tropics, observed on June 29 annually, focuses on the significance of the tropics as hubs of the ...

Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes ...

When looking at a map, the Strait of Hormuz might not seem all that impressive. It’s just a slim waterway squeezed between ...

The move underscores China's dominance of the critical mineral industry and is seen as leverage by China in its trade war with Donald Trump.

Today the Arctic is still a site of peril and promise. A new race to the North Pole is under way, as politicians dream of accessing mineral wealth buried in the permafrost and opening new trade routes ...

The second Belt and Road Conference on Science and Technology Exchange delivered a series of outcomes. Several memorandums of understanding were signed and Belt and Road sci-tech innovation special ...

In an early case of industrial espionage, Robert Fortune disguised himself as a local and took tea leaves and the secrets of ...

At least 13 Russian aircraft were destroyed in the coordinated Ukrainian drone strikes, according to a Ukrainian official.

The team now believe the Agios Athanasios is the previously-referenced site of the Odysseion—the center of a cult of hero ...