Two decades after Concorde’s last flight a new class of supersonic commercial jets are on the horizon. Boom Supersonic's experimental XB-1 jet (shown in a Schlieren photograph) has flown at supersonic ...

A new study found that dementia-related deaths were highest in suburban areas—not in crowded cities or the remote countryside ...

A new book on history's lost riches tells the tale of a cache of imperial gold, silver, and gems that was smuggled out of Peru on the eve of revolution before disappearing forever.

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Follow the winding pathways that carve through the hills of northeast Italy’s Prosecco region to discover how the bubbly is intertwined with local culture — and that there’s much more to this ...

Crossing the lakes and woodlands to the border with Norway, the fäbodleden—or fäbod trail—blends nature, great food, and ...

Her twins Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene were made prisoners. But they still had a big role to play in Roman history.

In 1897, nearly 200,000 dusty documents were retrieved from a forgotten genizah in Cairo. But why were these manuscripts left ...

The River Thames is the soul of England’s capital. Along its hallowed banks, it’s possible to glimpse the past lives and ...

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) has been more than two decades in the making, a feat of patience that invites comparison with ...

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A Paris railway station on a miserable, rainy January night feels worlds away from sunny alpine slopes and high-altitude soft ...