Google Maps started as a project called Where 2 in 2004 by a Sydney-based team and quickly evolved into the beloved ...

The turtles danced with the most enthusiasm in the tank when they knew they would get food. This was "strong evidence" that ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory.

The world feels a bit topsy-turvy at the moment, well more than usual anyway, so why not see a world that's actually been ...

Could future maps give us a glimpse of what the world's population will look like in 2100? Experts are drawing up maps which ...

Then artificial intelligence—combined with satellite images—lent a hand. Last year, journalists with the environmental-news nonprofit Mongabay used a free AI tool, called Earth Index, to analyze ...

Deep in Peru’s Amazon rainforest, drug traffickers have been building illegal airstrips on protected and indigenous lands. Finding these hidden strips across millions of acres of dense jungle ...

New results from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which returned pieces of an asteroid to Earth 16 months ago ... laser scanner allowed scientists to map the tiny asteroid in three dimensions ...

Within days of President Donald Trump signing an executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico to "Gulf of America," a website of the same moniker has begun selling globes and maps bearing the new ...

Few things fear people’s hearts, like the mention of venomous spiders. According to the Guinness World Records, venomous spiders are some of the most dangerous creatures on Earth, and the Brazilian ...

Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited due to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source. Credit: Argonne National Laboratory / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Scientists have identified mysterious formations deep ...

World leaders on Monday congratulated Donald Trump on his return to the White House following his inauguration. The 47th president of the United States was sworn in earlier at a ceremony that took ...