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Olivia Joseph can spot the stories in the stitches in their work as a quilt research fellow for the Mingei International Museum at Balboa Park. The fabrics, the patterns, the designs all reveal ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa. (AP) — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...

South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a shaft ...

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ROCKY HILL, N.J.—Jeff Bernardis had to keep the trains running on time. Perched at a bank of computer monitors, he relayed orders to the engineers of nearly a dozen trains ferrying oil, beer ...

Credit: Benjamin Nash Researchers have discovered an underground aquifer in Oregon’s Cascade Range is significantly larger than previously thought — three times the size of Lake Mead. This vast water ...

If you travelled on the London Underground today, you might have seen rather more skin than you’re used to. That’s because the annual ‘No Trousers Tube Ride’ returned for 2025 this ...

New research suggests that the carbon that serves as the building blocks of life "took the long way around" the galaxy before coming together to make up our bodies here on Earth. The scientists ...

The 2025 Art on the Underground programme includes new commissions at London’s Waterloo and Stratford stations, marking the 25th anniversary of the initiative that turns London into a vast ...

Under two new engineering degree programmes, students will master key skills relevant to a professional role in real engineering practice via “learning blocks”. For example, in the four-year ...