The Irish mathematician and physicist William Rowan Hamilton, who was born 220 years ago last month, is famous for carving ...

Those bemoaning the state of Britain’s trains should perhaps remind themselves that our first-ever passenger service wasn’t ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

More than 100 Roma supporters have been arrested in Nice ahead of Wednesday’s Europa League match between the two teams ...

Each generation, Ise Jingu, Japan’s most revered Shinto shrine, is knocked down and rebuilt from scratch, a massive, $390 ...

Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful explosions in the ...

We follow the journey which established the National Railway Museum – the first national museum outside of London – in York 50 years ago ...