Most of the water used by people in Egypt comes from the Nile River, which originates from precipitation over mountainous areas in the Ethiopian highlands. [...]

Researchers at the University of Oxford have confirmed that human activity and other external factors are responsible for the rise in global temperature. [...]

The name Argentina comes from the Latin word for sliver ‘argentum’, and it is indeed a country rich architectural heritage, especially in its [...]

The old wooden ship hull didn’t look like much when researchers first saw it: just broken, waterlogged boards and a few pieces of rusted metal, all [...]

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS), the Georg August University of Göttingen, and the Sonneberg Observatory have [...]

Star formation within interstellar clouds of gas and dust, so-called molecular clouds, proceeds very rapidly yet highly “inefficiently”. Most [...]

Just about a year after the launch of the NASA mission TESS, the first three comets orbiting the nearby star Beta Pictoris outside our solar system were [...]

Astronomers using the Gemini Observatory explore Neptune’s largest moon Triton and observe, for the first time beyond the lab, an extraordinary union [...]

Today, the Kalahari Desert is known as a very dry place. The word Kalahari in fact comes from a Tswana word which means ‘great thirst’.  Read more [...]

Wales is famous for many things – its singers, sports, incredible scenery and of course its many great castles. One of the most famous of these is [...]