The Pisco Basin in Peru is one of the world ... deserts when searching for relics of ancient marine ecosystems. But science now knows that vast arid regions like the Sahara, Atacama and Gobi ...

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

This hot desert area has not seen rain in five centuries and it’s so dry it’s gained a reputation for its record-breaking lack of precipitation. The Atacama Desert, in Chile, is the driest non ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

In the Arizona desert, researchers are learning so much more about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity ...

In 2014, it started commercial operations as the world’s largest solar thermal plant, spread across around 5 square miles of federal desert. “This project is a symbol of the exciting progress ...

Lidar has fully revealed a 600-year-old Zapotec city in southern Mexico. Lasers shot from an aircraft have revealed the ...

An alarming video from Gaza shows young children handling oversized rifles in the absence of Hamas police. Despite Hamas's efforts to maintain order, children handling weapons instead of toys has ...

Since Goma fell, I’ve lived in fear. I don’t dare leave my house.” These are the words of Justin Shamutwa Masumbuko, general ...