Most of us dismiss these mental escapes as idle fantasies, but psychological research suggests they are more revealing than ...

Starting Thursday, Google AI Ultra subscribers in the U.S. can play around with Project Genie, which is powered by a ...

From desert soils to date palms, Prof. Ilya Gelfand tracks the gases shaping our climate, and asks why no one was looking before.

Located just off the west coast of Scotland, the uninhabited Gruinard Island has a dark history.

An eccentric and artist, Arnold Henry Savage Landor won his way into the late 19th-century courts of east Asia by painting royal portraits. He traveled through India with two Persian cats, surveyed in ...

An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been accused of "incontinent bloodlust". Few films are as epically gruelling as ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

What do social climbers and gossipmongers have in common? My mother would tell me that both are morally suspect. This moral umbrage is etched into lessons from fairy tales and scripture that we ...

Visiting every country on Earth may seem out of reach for most — but one traveler is well on his way, with 61 stamps in his passport and counting. Daniel Björnram, 25, of Sweden, said he's made it his ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...