The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

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"I think every astronomer is going to find something of value here, as NASA's missions enable the world to answer fundamental questions about how the universe got its start, and how it changed to ...

For people, matching what they see on the ground to a map is second nature. For computers, it has been a major challenge. A ...

HAN DYNASTY TOPOGRAPHIC MAP. DATE: Before 168 B.C. MATERIAL: Ink on silk. DIMENSIONS: 3 feet by 3 feet. FOUND: Hunan, China. In 168 B.C., a lacquer box containing three maps drawn on silk was placed ...

Using satellite data since 2019, researchers have created a map featuring nearly three billion buildings around the world.

Dating back to the early 1600s, the Walls are one of the city's most iconic landmarks and a major draw for international visitors Researchers using state-of-the-art scanning technology have produced a ...

Recent technological and scientific advances have opened new possibilities for neuroscience research, which is in turn leading to interesting new discoveries. Over the past few years, many groups of ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...

In asmall cave tucked away south of Paris, scientists believe they’ve stumbled upon something extraordinary: what might be the oldest known 3D map created by humans. Carved into stone some 20,000 ...

Oliver Laxe bagged the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2025 for his apocalyptic desert thriller Sirat Over four features, Laxe keeps foregrounding primal forces and nature against which man is ...