A towering 5,000 feet high, with more than 7,000 steps, Mount Tai, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, is known for turning legs to jelly for anyone game for scaling to the top.

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

Researchers identify a new mechanism that allows avalanches containing a mixture of rock and ice to travel very long distances.

A pair of landmark studies, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, has finally identified the originators of the ...

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A new study reveals fresh clues about Indo-European language origins, tracing an ancestral group's key role in their spread.

New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

A legendary blizzard dropped 75.8 inches (~6.3 feet) of snow in 24 hours at Silver Lake. This long-standing official 24-hour ...

Where lies the origin of the Indo-European language family? Ron Pinhasi and his team in the Department of Evolutionary ...

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Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...