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For nearly two decades, a massive high-speed test track for supercars lay hidden in plain sight in the Northern Cape desert.

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New climate research warns that a wetter Sahara Desert could be in our future, as major rainfall increases and reduced Saharan dust threaten to intensify the Atlantic hurricane season, worsen drought ...

South Africa’s Christiaan Maas, currently a senior at the University of Texas and ranked No. 2 in the PGA TOUR University ...

Although the burial mound itself was modest, a simple oval rise of earth, it held a combination of objects that would soon ...