Explorers

Women Beyond Borders

This woman is recreating expeditions by forgotten female adventurers

Elise Wortley is following in the footsteps of history’s forgotten female explorers to prove adventure can be for anyone.

28/04/2022

Culture news

Have we been getting Machu Picchu's name wrong all this time?

A study looking into the origins of the rediscovery has unearthed a potential error.

23/03/2022

Nature

Meet the polar explorers who fell in love across a frozen continent

Two Australian Antarctic explorers are returning home with a wedding to plan after sparking up a romance that’s endured the isolation of the frozen continent.

14/02/2022

World

Italy? Spain? Poland? DNA tests probe Christopher Columbus' origins

The voyages of Christopher Columbus helped Europeans discover America, but the famous explorer’s own origins have long been a matter of controversy. But now scientists are hoping to shed light on them thanks to the latest advances in genetic technology.

26/05/2021

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Putin explores sunk Soviet submarine in Bond-style dive

Russian President Vladimir Putin dived to the bottom of the Gulf of Finland aboard a submersible to explore a Soviet submarine which was sunk during World War Two.

27/07/2019

United Kingdom

Remains of explorer Matthew Flinders discovered near London station

The remains of the first man to circumnavigate Australia, explorer Matthew Flinders, have been discovered near a train station in London

25/01/2019

Earth News

Building a kick-ass team

Unbreakable, invincible, indestructible: team building experiences

24/10/2017

World News

Record-breaking explorers answer your questions on the Arctic Mission

Marine biologist Tim Gordon and sailor Erik de Jong answer your questions on the Arctic Mission.

12/09/2017

Hungary

Nicholas Negroponte: 'internet is like roads and street lighting'

17/11/2015

USA

Solar Impulse completes record flight across Pacific

A solar powered plane has successfully completed a record-breaking five-day nonstop solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. The Solar Impulse is the

04/07/2015

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Solar sail tests Sagan’s dream of flying with Sun’s photons

20/05/2015

Culture news

Globe-trotting artist exhibits work in Moscow

Russian artist and world-famous explorer Fyodor Konyukhov has set up camp at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art for a unique exhibition of his works

15/12/2014

Austria

Felix Baumgartner: The man who fell to Earth

11/07/2014

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Time, toilets and tomatoes: Lucie looks back at ‘life on Mars’

24/04/2014

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Beyond the subconscious

10/02/2014

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The Mars detectives

20/06/2013