THE first of these works is by a long way the best and most convenient geological map of the British Isles, both for lecturers and students; and this new and greatly revised edition has added ...

There might be nothing more human than looking at the night sky and trying to understand our place in the universe. Long before our ancestors learned how to write they used the stars to make sense of ...

LONDON — The British Museum will display what it says is the world's oldest surviving map of the stars in a major upcoming exhibition on the Stonehenge stone circle. The 3,600-year-old "Nebra Sky Disc ...

Shares of BP are down over 2% today, on continuing worries over the cost of cleanup of the Gulf oil leak. While progress has been made in capping the leak, oil continues to gush out from the base of ...