Lale chats with her colleagues about putting together “Seeking Quiet,” a collection of stories that highlights out quest for ...

From dormant volcanoes and salt pans to urban forests and library gardens, these are the places we go for peace and quiet.

Desert Rub’ Al-Khali Is the Largest “Sand Sea” in the World, but It Was a 138-Foot-Deep Thriving Lake 8,000 Years Ago Earth ...

Archaeologists working in the Judean Desert have made headway on an ambitious project to document and preserve important historical sites that have previously been threatened by looting and ...

Their skin hangs looser than it did in their youth, but their eyes still gleam with energy.But these aren't just any sexagenarians we're talking about; these are geckos, believed to be the world's ...

“It’s hard to come back from that,” he said. Ma’s critique came Thursday afternoon at the World Figuring Skating Championships at TD Garden. He’s not competing in this fixture, and so ...

To read more about IAA's archaeological work in the Judean Desert, go to "A Challenging World." Excavation of pyramid structure, Nahal Zohar, Israel ...

The fossil was dug out of a Cretaceous sedimentary deposit in the Gobi Desert by a team of researchers from the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in 2012. Uranium-lead dating of the mineral layers ...

has marked the official launch of the South Gobi Underground Mass Mining Institute (SGUMMI) with a visit by the President of Mongolia to the Oyu Tolgoi mine. This institute offers a comprehensive, ...