In this New Year’s Eve special, The World looks at discoveries from around the globe. With Mount Everest adding an extra 160 ...

An almost forgotten horror story by the writer who brought the world “Dracula,” was read at the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin last Fall. The recently uncovered “Gibbet Hill,” is a short tale of ...

Hosts Marco Werman and Carol Hills mention a few things you might have missed in a year of discoveries — including a new space observatory that opened high up in Chile’s Atacama desert.

The Restoration Ecology team at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, recently published new research that uses super sensitive microphones to listen to and analyze the health of soil. As The ...

Classic American folk tunes meet beloved ragas from India. As Falguni “Falu” Shah, lead vocalist for the band American Patchwork Quartet, told Host Marco Werman last summer, there’s a lot in common ...

The year 2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur was named. Naturalist William Buckland identified a Megalosaurus, or the “great lizard”, in a lecture in London in 1824, marking the beginning of ...

Mount Everest has a lot of claims to fame. Among them: the vast quantity of trash left behind by climbers. For years, local Sherpas and volunteers have been clearing trash from the mountain, which is ...

Researchers have used laser-based remote sensing technology to document two urban centers high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Located along an ancient trade route, these medieval cities were ...

A project in South Africa aims to reduce demand for rhinoceros horns by making them radioactive. Last summer, Host Marco Werman spoke with Professor James Larkin at the University of the Witwatersrand ...

Jimmy Carter's presidency was, among other things, known for his Camp David Accords, the Iran hostage crisis and the Panama ...

The Jewish community in Kolkata came from all over the Middle East, from places like Syria and Iraq. Once home to around ...

Two decades after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia, some survivors are rebuilding their lives in the ...