They suggest the fabled and the fabulous: Xanadu, Shangri-La. For travellers, the so-called “Stans”, and cities like Samarkand and Almaty, have magnetic appeal. The ancient silk industry ...

Las Vegas has mastered the art of tearing down its past to make room for the latest. So what is the next chapter?

Architect Domenico Fontana stumbled across ancient buried treasure while doing ... Alas, when Kublai Khan moved the capital to Xanadu in 1260, Karakorum had had its day. Its decline was sealed ...

offer new insights into the force of the ancient tsunami and its global impact. Scientists suggest these findin... A room-temperature quantum computer has been developed by Xanadu, addressing ...

Around 1990, Robin Hanson implemented the first known corporate prediction market at Project Xanadu, allowing employees ... having evolved from ancient betting practices to sophisticated financial ...

He also injects various playful digressions via a series of ‘interludes’, on subjects ranging through Aristotle and the ancient polis ... is suggested by tech pioneer Ted Nelson’s Project Xanadu, ...

From the rover's point of view on the ground, it's hard to tell, but this ancient shoreline on Mars seemed to lie inside a 2,050-mile-wide (3,300-kilometer-wide) impact crater called Utopia Basin.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Ragamala Dance Company's Children of Dharma is coming to Coppell Arts Center on Friday April 25 at 8 PM. The ...

This ancient period of deep freeze, known as the Neoproterozoic Era, or “Snowball Earth,” lasted from about 1 billion to 543 million years ago. During that time, landmasses consolidated into a ...

But those experts may have a surprising new answer thanks to new research that shows the ancient people of the Philippines and ISEA may have mastered seafaring well before anyone else. Proving ...