The United States of America (official name) is celebrating its “Semiquincentennial” or 250th year of existence. In addition, ...

Lavishly illustrated postcard-sized paper labels pasted on mill-manufactured cloth reflected and even subverted ideas of ...

Imagine if Greenland bordered Portugal, Brazil no longer had a coastline, and Tibet suddenly lay by the sea. It sounds ...

Two brothers, both mechanical engineers, are climbing many of the world’s tall peaks to prove they have been measured ...

Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

The Ancient Greek mapmakers were among the earliest thinkers to conceive of the world as a coherent whole, turning centuries of myth, seafaring knowledge, and emerging science into actual ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

U.S. men’s national team (USMNT) coach Mauricio Pochettino singled out a glut of fringe players who have staked a strong claim to be included in the roster for the 2026 World Cup. In the nation’s ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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