Although Chernobyl is the most well known, there are a host of other radioactive places in the world in countries including ...

The Semipalatinsk Test Site, also called the Polygon, is lesser known but was used by the Soviet Union to test nuclear ...

YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center – the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the blinding light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

both by the United States in 1945 in the final stages of the second world war. The first hit Hiroshima on August 6, and three days later, another was dropped on Nagasaki. Codenamed "Fat Man ...

An advanced laboratory at Japan’s Nagasaki University specialising in the study of the deadliest viruses known to man has triggered widespread safety concerns about the facility’s security ...

When atomic bombs struck Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, the intense light and heat from the explosions left only shadows of ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change ...

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water enclosed to the east by Florida and the Yucatan peninsula is ...

Newsweek's weekly update maps the locations of 12 aircraft carriers in the Indo-Pacific region as of February 14.