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The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
Opponents of America's entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.
According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.
Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
London’s busiest airport seems to be rebounding well from the pandemic — but Istanbul has better prospects in the long run.
Scientists don't understand why the correlation exists.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
These ten maps provide a fascinating insight into the impact that soccer (sorry, football) has had worldwide.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn't just a 15-minute city; it's a five-minute city.
X marks the spot. The Dutch town of Ommeren has been swamped by detectorists armed with shovels looking for $20-million treasure.
One possible vision of the distant future.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.
No shots fired. No flags raised. And no dry land gained. Still, the U.S. effectively grew by the size of about two Californias in December.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.