The precious Antarctic ice undergoes a series of destructive crush experiments under the watchful eye of earthquake and rock ...

A teenager with a rare, life-limiting genetic condition is off to university after receiving a pioneering gene therapy ...

Violent volcanic eruptions, catastrophic earthquakes and devastating tsunami causing loss of life and great damage show the Earth to be a dynamic planet.

Writing for The Daily Mail, Professor Mark Galeotti (UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies) explores the diplomatic implications of the upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir ...

Second son of John Leith of Leith Hall (1731-1763). Commissioner in bankruptcy [in fact lunacy] of Mrs [in fact Miss] Elizabeth Leith, the heiress to the Tobago property of John Leith (q.v.). In 1816 ...

King of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. According to the ancient Greek historian Herodotus despatched an expedition that circumnavigated Africa, and he was the king who started the construction of a canal ...