Why would China build a multi-billion-dollar highway right through the heart of the desert? In this video, we explore the surprising story behind one of China's boldest infrastructure projects, a ...

On Jan 1, Matkasim retired from the culture and tourism bureau of Hotan prefecture, but he agreed to help complete the census ...

Clinical trials are underway that demand us to rethink menopause—and whether or not women actually need to go through it. More than a million women experience menopause each year and new medical ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third ...

To a large extent, among the broader body politic and the general populace, that remains the case: a 2016 survey of American ...

For as long as road maps have been around, men have complained that women cannot read them. Now a team of scientists have concluded that there are very real biological reasons behind the cause of ...

Silk Road-linked wallets moved 3,421 BTC worth around $322.5 million after a decade of being dormant. One wallet transferred 2,343 Bitcoin worth around $220M, while the second wallet transferred 1079 ...

The Federal Government has approved a road map for the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry, NESI, with the adoption of the National Integrated Electricity Policy, NIEP. A statement by the ...

On Anzac Day, pundit Matthew Hooton floated the return of national military service in his weekly New Zealand Herald column headlined 'The case for universal military training'. After setting out the ...

They also can remain submerged for over 20 minutes. PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid-December, as the Antarctic summer approaches, the chicks have started to ...

New Delhi [India], May 3 (ANI): With the National Capital region experiencing ... All the ministers and the Chief Minister are on the road and inspecting it. We have seen how fast the work is ...

asked the 78-year-old director of the University of Washington’s Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and a National Geographic Explorer. “They’re comical, they’re curious, they’re endearing.” ...