An example of such a mound was discovered in Cumbira by independent archeologist Steve Dickinson, who said: “This is a rare” one, because should it turn out to be what it looks like it would mark a ...

Global markets are closing out a tumultuous week after the conflict in Iran effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, through ...

In the wake of the U.S. bombing of Iran and its dismissal of European allies, an anxious continent’s best chance at security runs through its largest economy.

Scientists using the ALMA telescope have created the most-detailed-ever map of the Milky Way's chaotic center. The ...

Preserved in the margins of ancient literary works are notes that reveal how the Greeks strove to map mythical places onto ...

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The release of more than three million extra documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has prompted resignations, accusations and a wave of online vitriol towards members of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The challenge was as concise as it was complex: “Sketch in the boundaries of states according to your view of ...

Newly released Mars images offer a detailed look at one of the Red Planet's oldest, most heavily cratered regions, a landscape shaped by billions of years of impacts, volcanism and erosion.

In the top layers of soil, microbes digest dead wood and fallen leaves, while threadlike roots release carbon dioxide as they ...

The steady flow of Gulf oil shipments to Europe, the United States and Asia through the narrow shipping lanes of the Strait of Hormuz has created the world’s largest oil transit chokepoint.

Simply sign up to the EU economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When French start-up Verkor begins rolling car batteries out of its new gigafactory near Dunkirk, it wants them to be ...