In this New Year’s Eve special, The World looks at discoveries from around the globe. With Mount Everest adding an extra 160 ...

An almost forgotten horror story by the writer who brought the world “Dracula,” was read at the Bram Stoker Festival in Dublin last Fall. The recently uncovered “Gibbet Hill,” is a short tale of ...

Hosts Marco Werman and Carol Hills mention a few things you might have missed in a year of discoveries — including a new space observatory that opened high up in Chile’s Atacama desert.

The Restoration Ecology team at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, recently published new research that uses super sensitive microphones to listen to and analyze the health of soil. As The ...

The year 2024 marks 200 years since the first dinosaur was named. Naturalist William Buckland identified a Megalosaurus, or the “great lizard”, in a lecture in London in 1824, marking the beginning of ...

Classic American folk tunes meet beloved ragas from India. As Falguni “Falu” Shah, lead vocalist for the band American Patchwork Quartet, told Host Marco Werman last summer, there’s a lot in common ...

Mount Everest has a lot of claims to fame. Among them: the vast quantity of trash left behind by climbers. For years, local Sherpas and volunteers have been clearing trash from the mountain, which is ...

Researchers have used laser-based remote sensing technology to document two urban centers high in the mountains of Uzbekistan. Located along an ancient trade route, these medieval cities were ...

A project in South Africa aims to reduce demand for rhinoceros horns by making them radioactive. Last summer, Host Marco Werman spoke with Professor James Larkin at the University of the Witwatersrand ...

Meteorites from Argentina are sold at rock and mineral shops across the world. And for the most part, they have been illegally obtained. Buying and selling meteorites is prohibited in Argentina. This ...

Who doesn’t have a fond childhood memory that’s grown hazy with time, especially because there was never a photo to solidify it in the mind’s eye? Well, as The World’s Gerry Hadden reported from ...

Mountains are in constant motion. That includes the world’s tallest peak, Mount Everest, in the Himalayas. It’s added an extra 160 feet in the past 89,000 years, according to a study released in 2024.