Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

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When you think of the tallest mountains on Earth, Mount Everest probably comes to mind. But what if we told you that the real ...

At its height circa 1989, Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on Earth. More than 35,000 people lived in ...

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

New metallic beetle species, Konradus trescrucensis, is discovered in the Andes. It has adapted to extremely cold weather.

Research maps nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves. Millions of Americans would meet WHO air quality limits by switching to electric cooking.

Self-organizing maps, and the machine learning protocol involved in creating them, have been in use since the 1980s, Lawrence ...

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A 6-year-old girl died following a Dec. 6, 2025, go-kart accident at Urban Air adventure park in Port St. Lucie, Florida.