Saint-Médard

When the Deacon of Paris, François de Paris, died in May 1727, great swathes of mourners attended his funeral. The congregation was sorrowfu...

Earth Lights

Earth lights dance above a Norwegian fjord. These are probably similar to the Northern Lights in origin. Throughout history, people have not...

Earth Energy

Some people believe the earth has a natural source of energy that manifests itself as a magnetic field or electrical current. This unseen po...

The Piri Reis Map

The Piri Reis map, showing the coastline of Antarctica under the ice . In 1929 a group of historians at the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turk...

New Ancient Fungus Finding Suggests World's Forests Were Wiped Out In Global Catastrophe

New Ancient Fungus Finding Suggests World's Forests Were Wiped Out In Global Catastrophe ScienceDaily (2009-10-02) -- Tiny organisms tha...

Princeton paleomagnetists put controversy to rest

The well-exposed layering of basalt flows in formations near Lake Superior is aiding scientific understanding of the geomagnetic field in an...

World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago

  Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is man's earliest map, dating from almost 14,000 years ago. By Fiona Govan in Madrid...