Despite the harsh conditions seen today, duck-billed dinosaurs roved the Arctic 69 million years ago, according to a new study. During the late Cretaceous period, the Arctic was vastly different ...

Eugene Bird was not yet 30 years old, a recent addition to the ranks of the State Department, when he was posted to the Israel-Jordan desk in Washington. It was a daunting assignment for an ...

For about two weeks, a convoy of trucks, RVs and other vehicles, has slowly roved around the Beltway and on the interstate freeways in the District during the late morning and afternoon hours most ...

As we remember the now-officially-dead Opportunity rover this week, one fact keeps sticking out to me: That machine traveled a whopping 28 miles across the surface of another planet. And it did so ...

Remembering Billy Strayhorn is Danish drummer Jacob Roved's tribute to Strayhorn and it is an album that is filled with sophisticated and swinging music. The program includes some of Strayhorn's ...

John Sherwood, a teller of stories, oral and written, whose subjects ranged from a strolling accordion player in suburban Washington to a Chesapeake Bay skipper whose misguided attempt to stay ...

The dig's co-director, Dr Alfonso Arribas, said the specimens were the remains of carcasses scavenged by giant hyenas (Pachycrocuta brevirostris). After stripping them of flesh, the hyenas discarded ...

When Duke and Young hit the regolith, it marked the first time that astronauts had set foot in the rugged lunar highlands. Apollo 16’s landing site was Descartes, a region some 7,400 feet (2,250 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The closer you look at Celtic Rock, the less clear its shape becomes. Built on Sean O’Riada’s revival ...