Some questions look simple and turn out to have no answer. How long is the coastline of Britain is one of them, and the discovery of why is one of…
Maya Linton
For most of recorded history, ancient Egypt was legible only in fragments. Its monuments, tombs and papyri were covered in writing, and the knowledge of how to read that writing…
A cave developed for visitors is called a show cave, and the good ones manage to be accessible without being diminished. These twelve have walkways, guides and lighting, and are…
Antonio Stradivari worked in Cremona in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and the instruments he made have become the most valuable objects in music. Individual examples sell for…
The Icelandic landscape is one of the most photographed on Earth: black sand, green moss, waterfalls, glaciers, and a horizon that runs uninterrupted for miles. Part of what makes it…
Standing behind falling water is a truly strange sensation: the noise, the light coming through the curtain, the cold air pushed out by the fall. The geology that produces it…