Deptford station opened in 1836 as part of the London and Greenwich Railway, the first suburban railway in the world. It is the oldest surviving passenger-only station in London, built on a long run ...

Deptford is a riverside neighbourhood in Lewisham which is home to London's oldest surviving passenger-only train station.

Scientists are reconstructing the oldest known map of the night sky - long thought lost to time - by using X-rays to reveal its secrets.

After more than 2,000 years, the first-ever star map created by ancient astronomer Hipparchus has been uncovered using cutting-edge X-ray technology.

Researchers are painstakingly reconstructing the oldest-known map of the night sky – previously thought lost forever – by ...

The shape of an organism is the first way we experience most species and the subject of one of the oldest pursuits in biology. However, the ...

The temperate rainforests of the Chilean Coast Range are home to a spectacular array of life: iridescent blue lizards, tiny wild cats called kodkods, and curly vines of waxy red bellflowers. Towering ...

Soils surrounding large, ancient alerce trees in Chile accumulate a disproportionately high diversity of fungi, which help store more carbon and make the entire forest healthier, suggesting that ...

The bridge is over 3,000 years old, was originally built to carry chariots, and astonishingly, it remains in use today.

The faint 67,800-year-old hand stencil is barely visible amongst much younger art. Credit: Griffith University Scientists have identified the world’s oldest rock art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in ...

Paige Blumer always loved horses. She started taking riding lessons when she was 5, after launching a campaign to convince her parents to sign her up. Blumer soon was participating in equestrian ...

Feb. 25 (UPI) --A Virginia woman's pet horse was officially certified as the oldest in the world by Guinness World Records at the age of 37 years and 329 days. Fancy, a horse belonging to Paige Sigmon ...