Miners collect spinels from gravel at the end of a long day at Man Sin. Photo by Vincent Pardieu, © GIA. In the spring of 2001, I was studying gemology in Yangon ...

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Paul Salopek has spent the last 13 years walking from Africa to the southern tip of South America ...

Two New Kensington men have been added to the list of people indicted in a Department of Justice investigation of an alleged cocaine trafficking organization in Western Pennsylvania. Andres ...

New Kensington police say a Valley Jr.-Sr. High School math teacher prodded students to fight during a geometry class in October. Bradley Reiher, 45, of Tarentum is charged with misdemeanor corruption ...

Susan Goodwin has been laid to rest 23 years after vanishing from Port Lincoln, with mourners hearing an emotional poem from her heartbroken partner. Michele Peterson’s poem for her “lifelong” partner ...

The University of Nevada, Reno hosted Winter Commencement ceremonies on Dec. 6, at the Lawlor Events Center to celebrate August and December 2025 graduates. I think the first time I met Guy Rocha was ...

Dr. Haritashya received his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology in 2005, where he studied glacier hydrology, modeling and remote sensing image analysis. He joined UD in 2008 after completing ...

Logistical challenges kept scientists from extracting a core from the Pamir Mountains of central Asia until a recent expedition to Tajikistan’s Kon Chukurbashi ...

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...