Scientists find seismic scars in Brzegi, Poland and warn that the actual risk from an unknown fault line is much greater than believed.

For years, debates about Stonehenge have swung between gritty human effort and sweeping natural forces. Some picture sledges, ...

Boone Niederhofer, a former Texas A&M receiver living 1,000 miles from the nearest bobsled track, followed an unusual path to the Games.

Swiss palaeontologist Jacques Ayer has been appointed by the government of Benin as managing director of four new public ...

The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad is the town’s most iconic attraction, and it genuinely lives up to the hype. A coal-fired steam locomotive hauls passengers through the Animas River ...

Between two of the sites currently hosting events in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics lies an immense dinosaur trackway only ...

Discover 22 stunning heart-shaped lakes around the world, from alpine wonders to desert oases. Learn how they form and how to ...

A layer of rock just 520 million years old sat directly on top of ancient rock dating back 1.4 to 1.8 billion years.

As the Winter Olympics come to their end in Milan and Cortina, enjoy these sweeping landscapes before booking your next trip to Europe ...

In July 1954, Enrico Fermi took a beautiful and possibly quite dangerous trip to the French Alps as part of a group from The Summer School at Les Houches. The rest of this post will take a closer look ...

Hannibal marching his elephants over the Alps is one of history's most legendary moments, and now archaeologists have found a bone that proves it really happened. During the Second Punic War, the ...