Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) in Japan have found a ...

Snow covered the sands of Ain Sefra, an Algerian town in the Sahara Desert, for only the fifth time in 42 years. The sands of the large desert were blanketed in snow Monday after the weather fell ...

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A systematic satellite survey of Sudan’s Atbai Desert has identified hundreds of monumental circular stone tombs belonging to ...

EL GOUNA, Egypt, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The strange spiral pattern of mounds and impressions looks like the crop circles of Europe, but reinterpreted for the desert landscape. And for the more ...

Across the dry deserts of southern Peru lies a landscape that seems at first completely ordinary. The ground is flat, pale and silent, stretching so far that the horizon looks blurred in the heat. For ...

Mystery gridlines in the Chinese desert that were captured by Google Earth have spawned wild and worrying conspiracy theories. Labyrinth-like, the pictures depict apparently man-made structures that ...

Patterns appearing on both the very large and very small scale are extremely rare, but researchers have found a similar pattern in two apparently unrelated systems -- skin cells and fairy circles in ...