Professor Lauren Williams was joined by a cultural anthropologist in Providence and a cartographer and basketmaker from Maine ...

Our first in-house map was produced during World War I. By the Second World War, the White House was asking for them by name.

A budding peace deal in Gaza could ripple across the globe and have “percolating effects” on resolving the war in Ukraine, ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

ICEBlock, a free iPhone crowdsourcing app, was taken down from the App Store following apparent pressure from U.S.

For generations, schools, media outlets and decision-makers have relied on a familiar world map. It has become a global standard, seen everywhere from classroom posters to government buildings. But ...

Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

President Trump has seized on the government shutdown as an opportunity to reshape the federal workforce and punish ...

Roth was standing at the edge of a cave in Pirkanmaa, Finland. Inside, he knew, was a geocache: a container that was stashed at a particular latitude and longitude and meant to be sought and found ...

For the first time in history, Punjabis across India and abroad united to honor their language, literature, and heritage. The ...

A new month means new books! Here are some of the most anticipated Canadian fiction and nonfiction titles for October 2025.

Time can be a controversial business. Who came up with time zones – and why is the International Date Line a bit squiggly?