Travel is usually about escapism, beaches, skylines, flavors, sunsets. The world is changing faster than guidebooks can ...

The search for a long-lost Antarctic ship has unexpectedly opened a window into a hidden ecosystem, revealing a dense ...

Warmer air makes glaciers speed up more and reach peak speed earlier each year, showing temperature strongly controls how ice moves.

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

Swetha Gurumurthy provides a stark, monochromatic view of the human motor system. This high-contrast image shows the “neurites” — the branching highways that connect motor neurons to muscles. Using a ...

There are a lot of misconceptions about the Arctic, from the whole concept of the North Pole, to the number of penguins who ...

A remarkable new book about the navigator, ‘Wide, Wide Sea’ by Hampton Sides, traces the adventurer’s third voyage and its fateful conclusion ...

We’ve finally mapped all of Zealandia.

The utility moves come as data centers’ energy use is set to skyrocket, Christa Marshall reports. BloombergNEF published a ...

China’s TRIDENT telescope plunges 3,500 meters into the deep sea to chase elusive neutrinos, rivaling IceCube and pushing a bold new frontier in cosmic exploration and extreme astrophysics.

A sweeping set of sustainability initiatives from Aurora Expeditions could set a new benchmark for the expedition cruise ...