New Worlds

Colonial explorers started describing continents and countries across the world for their own interests of conquering new ...
For more than half a billion years, a giant magnetic anomaly buried in Earth’s ancient rocks has puzzled scientists. The ...
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Fall of Constantinople Explained in 1 Minute

Through Google Earth’s lens, we retrace the dramatic Fall of Constantinople in 1453. In just one minute, we chart the city’s imposing walls, the Ottoman siege led by Mehmed II, and the moment the ...
On the west side of Olympic National Park, the Hoh Rain Forest receives up to 170 inches of rain each year, creating a world blanketed in moss, ferns, and mist. Often described as a real-life fairy ...
An active weather week ahead with repeat frontal genesis from a broad trough extending south from the Gulf of Alaska through ...
The Bay Area will receive a solid dousing this week from the region’s first atmospheric river of the rainy season, according ...
Scientists have discovered the oldest directly dated ice on Earth—an incredible six million years old—deep in the frozen expanse of East Antarctica. The ice, along with ancient air bubbles trapped ...
More than 150,000 people took shelter in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday as powerful Typhoon Kalmaegi made ...
A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on ...
MONTANA - Unsettled weather is moving into northwestern Montana, with widespread valley rain and mountain snow possible this afternoon through Tuesday morning.
An Antarctic glacier retreated faster than any other in modern history, reveals new research. Half of the glacier - five miles of ice - disintegrated in just two months, say scientists.
With pumpkin spice lattes flowing, jack-o-lanterns lit, and foliage gently floating from the tree branches down to Earth, the ...