For centuries, citizens of the Eurasian continent have pondered an affordable and speedy way to traverse the great expanse of tundra separating Europeans from their Asian neighbors. And when the ...
This week it will be 200 years since what has often been described as the birth of the modern railway - when the Stockton to Darlington public line in north-east England became the world's first to ...
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2024. It was republished in February 2025 to mark the launch of CNN’s Chance Encounters podcast Marie-Claire Martineau couldn’t stop thinking ...