The Silk Roads Programme, a major 'Routes of Dialogue’ project, is one of UNESCO’s flagship initiatives. For more than three decades, it has served as a valuable tool for understanding how cultures ...

Deep space exploration, as a critical means for humanity to understand and investigate the evolutionary history of the universe, has entered a phase of rapid development. A single deep space ...

The war in Iran has dominated headlines with reports of airstrikes and escalating military activity. But beyond the immediate devastation, the conflict has also illuminated a quieter and rapidly ...

Welcome to the first crisis of your brief NFL head-coaching career, Liam Coen. Life was great just two weeks ago during a 4-1 start for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but they will wobble into their bye ...

Houston, we have an ... IMAX release. More than 55 years ago, three astronauts en route to the moon had to abandon their dreams of reaching the lunar surface when their spacecraft encountered some ...

A new era in the use and exploration of space and the Moon is beginning, including extraction and in situ use of abiotic space resources. States engaging in these emerging space and lunar activities ...

• Timekeeping is determined by ultraprecise devices called atomic clocks, but it is also aligned with Earth’s rotation, mainly for historical reasons. • Because the planet’s rate of rotation ...

Astronavigation is not easy. If you still want to determine your position without electronic aids, you can now use special calculation templates. These have been developed by professional skipper and ...

Twenty-five years ago, in 1995, the U.S. Air Force reached a milestone: Its satellite Global Positioning System became fully operational. Today, GPS directs our world, from supertankers to pizza ...

In 1673, in a North Sea skirmish that killed nearly 150 men, the French privateer Jean-François Doublet took a bullet that tossed him from the forecastle and broke his arm in two places. How did the ...

The e-vector orientation of linearly polarized light represents an important visual stimulus for many insects. Especially the detection of polarized skylight by many navigating insect species is known ...