From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

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A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

On paper, the change is simple: the informal Central Asian format is now a C6. Politically and conceptually, it is much more ...

The bird, which breeds across northern Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, has been named “Sonbarsa” after the nearby ...

A research team from Munich has created an immense dataset of all structures in the world. It is intended to help with urban ...

A final sweep of 60 years of evidence reveals durable truths about how development succeeds and fails.

President Trump released his national security strategy late Thursday night with a focus on building up a larger military ...

While most teens are counting down the days to their 18th birthday with cakes and candles, Emporia’s Avery Evins is counting ...

With new chapters unfolding in London and beyond, Sundaram Tagore stands at the helm of a global movement — where India’s ...