The first major orchestra to grace the annual music and arts festival in the Southern California desert was joined by ... considered one of the world’s top orchestras, has been long admired ...

An epic lake that once covered a whopping 26million square miles is now home to one of the earth's youngest deserts. The Aral Sea once sat on the border between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan ...

A weekly summary of the big stories from financial markets around the world. 'Off-Map Destination' winner Wolfgat offers a menu made from hyper-local and foraged ingredients. Tech sector venture ...

Combined with the recordings of brain activity, the result is the largest wiring diagram and functional map of the brain to date, containing more than 200,000 cells, four kilometers of axons (the ...

(MENAFN- Asia Times) China just delivered a warning shot from the Gobi Desert-combining mass ballistic ... rehearsal for missile-era deterrence in a world where space, speed and mass firepower ...

The Empty Quarter, or Rub' al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world's largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers -- mainly in Saudi Arabia -- it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...

In a quiet demonstration of its technological prowess, China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has conducted a missile defence test in the Gobi Desert where as many as 16 ballistic missiles ...

A digital map of ancient Greece and the known ancient world as traveled by ancient geographers has been created by researchers at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The map lets users ...

A new map by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS ... These two countries hold 88% of the world's total nuclear weapons. Are nuclear weapon stockpiles increasing or decreasing? The total number ...

The Guinness World Records has declared Saudi Arabia's Highway 10 as the world's longest straight road. The 159-mile long highway runs from Haradh to Al Batha, crossing the Rub Al-Khali desert.

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 ...