CITY LENS

India’s space programme has built a reputation for precision, efficiency, and steady progress over the decades. From launching satellites for other countries to expanding its own navigation and communication systems, the country has become a major player in global space activity. Yet, space missions do not always end cleanly. Some leave behind remnants that continue…

PC: National History Museum A collection of fossils that spent generations in museum drawers has revealed an unexpected chapter in Britain’s distant past. Long before forests spread across the landscape and before the first trees appeared, a giant scorpion-like predator moved through wetlands that covered parts of what are now England and Wales. The animal…

The Guam Kingfisher is known as the “sihek” in Chamorro, the native language of the Marianas Archipelago and is the rarest species at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia. The bird is classified by the IUCN as extinct in the wild, meaning a single one is not present outside the conservation centre….