From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

The Himalayas and Kathmandu may lure all the tourists, but Nepal's Terai lowlands are teeming with wildlife, national parks ...

Shattered Lands, for the first time, presents the whole story of how the Indian Empire was unmade. How a single, sprawling ...

Looking at the weather map on his computer and seeing three simultaneous tropical storms forming across Asia in late November, climatologist Fredolin Tangang’s first thoughts drifted to the 2004 ...

PADANG, Indonesia — The death toll from last week’s catastrophic floods and landslides in parts of Asia surged past 1,500 ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

From VR landscapes to surreal sculptures, these seven Asian artists are challenging boundaries between disciplines ...

The first study to examine the extent of European ancestry biases in gene maps reveals tens of thousands of genetic ...

Landslides and flooding across Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand have killed more than 1,200 people in the past week, and 800 ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ...

Distinguished delegates, colleagues and friends, Writers and futurists have long echoed Alvin and Heidi Toffler’s idea that “the future arrives too fast…and in the wrong order.” Today, we know, the ...

China is expanding its military presence beyond East Asia as it operates the world’s largest navy by number of hulls.