The Tentative Lists of States Parties are published by the World Heritage Centre at its website and/or in working documents in order to ensure transparency, access to information and to facilitate ...

The opportunity to use a large professional telescope at a historic and renowned observatory is the dream of most amateur astronomers, beginner or advanced. Most of the time, we have to battle against ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The first visitors to the top of the 2,877-metre Pic du Midi de Bigorre didn’t come to ski. Nor, of course, did ...

AT a recent sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences M. Ch. Sainte-Claire Deville made a communication, with reference to the proposed Physical Observatory on the Pic du Midi, in the Pyrenees. He ...