Cars equipped with radar, lidar, and cameras to capture road data.

Nestled in a lakeside town in northern Italy is Australia's “home away from home” for the Milan Cortina Olympics — right down to the coffee and Vegemite. Nearly 15 years ago, the Australian Institute ...

Its title was “The Europeans.” A few respectful reviews aside, and despite a parallel American edition, the book didn’t have ...

The EU missed the turn to hard power largely because of a factor that is still shaping Europe to this day: the legacy of empire. For when, in 1954, it came time for the French parliament to ratify the ...

Explore the animated map that illustrates the growth of Europe's largest cities from 1600 BCE to modern times. Timeline: 0:00 - Intro 0:44 - Ancient era 1:12 - Greco-Roman World 1:59 - Middle Ages 3:5 ...

These 15 images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us of the grandeur of Greece Travel Since the 13th century, artists have been reinventing the art form that covers churches, palaces ...

U.S. nuclear strategy revolves around the idea of the “triad.” Each of the military’s methods for delivering a nuclear strike represents a leg – the air leg (bomber planes), the sea leg (missile ...

The Erechtheion, built in the 5th century BC, at the Acropolis of Athens. Athens is one of the six oldest Greek cities among the ten oldest in Europe that remain inhabited. Credit: Berthold Werner CC ...

While we don’t know everything the travel year ahead has in store for us, we do know that barring something totally unexpected, Europe will once again be the world’s most visited region. A year ago at ...

Thousands of residents are being relocated in Sweden's northernmost city of Kiruna, which lies 145 kilometers (90 miles) north of the Arctic Circle. Kiruna is on the move because of ground subsidence ...