“The sapphire was tested at the gemmological lab and the result was only communicated to me shortly after the catalogue had ...

For Kafka, however, death is eternal freedom from the flaming shackles of life. In ‘The Metamorphosis’, for example, the ...

Linda Leaming first arrived in Bhutan, where she was blown away by its beauty and the kindness of strangers. It didn’t take ...

Last month, the Janasu tunnel, also known as tunnel no 8 (T-8), completed the critical tunnel breakthrough phase. For Indian ...

Analyzing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new ...

In this week’s Science for All, Vasudevan Mukunth explains how ultra-cold atoms and lasers in space can measure how much the ...

Having a long runway at the airport is generally a good thing, but steep cliffs, mountains, and nearby oceans mean these ...

Langtang was destroyed in the earthquake and 300 people there died. But others returned and rebuilt a tourist haven.

A giant sequoia located in Sequoia National Park in California, the General Sherman is 52,500 feet in volume and is more than ...

The majestic mountains of Uttarakhand, prone to landslides ... sunset and create a ruckus that is totally alien to the quietude of this ridge in the Garhwal Himalayas. Banerjee recently wrote to the ...

Although snow in April is not rare in the Alps mountain range ... may have been lost to the mantle during the formation of the Himalayas. Researchers from Monash University used a model to ...

Buckle up, nerds: NASA is building the first quantum gravity sensor for space—a suitcase-sized instrument ... “We could determine the mass of the Himalayas using atoms,” said Jason Hyon ...