North wasn’t always “up” on world maps. North doesn't always mean "up" when it comes to geophysics. Scientists have known for ...

War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the great powers of the time, shaping the geopolitical landscape of the modern world. This video provides a detailed, map-based summary of the ...

For 17 years, the so-called "magic cicadas" have been hiding silently underground. Now, they've emerged again, and their din can be heard over parts of southern New England, marking the final stage of ...

A team of RIT software engineering students is completing a senior project to help a local business expand using artificial ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Scientists are warning that a 300-metre-tall “mega tsunami” could potentially wipe a large chunk of America off the map – if a strong enough earthquake hits a specific active fault line over the next ...

almost all of South America is farther east than North America. Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t ...

This fanciful account led the cartographer to place a large black rock—believed to be magnetic—right at the North Pole ... designed a map that instead focused on the world’s water.

North America’s geological core has persisted for ... of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. The scientists behind the new research had no intention ...

Editor’s note: Sign up for Unlocking the World ... aisle planes across the North Atlantic are not new. Boeing’s 757 has plied the skies between North America and Europe for decades.

“People using Maps in the U.S. will see ‘Gulf of America ... the Alaskan peak Denali – the tallest mountain in North America – to Mount McKinley. The mountain bore the 25th U.S ...

Google Maps switched Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America on Monday. "We have a longstanding practice of applying name changes when they have been updated in official government sources," Google said.