Discovery & Adventure

A patent that should not exist There is a document filed at the United States Patent and Trademark …

Many people believe that long before recorded history, there were highly advanced prehistoric civilizations — societies that rose …

By the 1940s, Moscow was a city of whispers, heavy with the scent of cheap tobacco and the …

In a modern society dominated by science and reason, dreams are often seen as projections of the subconscious. …

There is a village in southwestern Iran called Jandi Shapur. Fourteen kilometers southeast of the city of Dezful, …

I had always thought of Venice as the pinnacle of canal cities. In some ways, it still might …

At dusk on a Ming watchtower in 1500, a soldier lit a small fire of dry grass. Down …

Stand at the edge of the Grand-Place in Brussels just before sunset, and the square seems to hold …

For more than a century, some Western researchers have tried to investigate reports of unusual human abilities, from …

Animals move through the world guided by senses and instincts we barely understand. They notice what is hidden, …