High-speed rail, once absent, now covers 845.37 km. Xinjiang is now home to the world's first desert railway loop around the Tarim Basin and a northern loop encircling the Junggar Basin.

For centuries, hundreds of millions of people have relied on desert wetlands that are now disappearing. Can blending ancient ...

Here are some facts about conclaves past, derived from historical studies including Miles Pattenden’s “Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450–1700,” and interviews with experts ...

Every termite mound holds roughly 65 cubic yards of packed clay. The total displaced soil rivals about ...

The Kashmir conflict has been running for nearly eight decades, and the contested region is one of the most heavily fortified ...