Africa is on a fierce campaign that, if successful, will see the Mercator map replaced with the Equal Earth map on web-based ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions suggest.

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When you think of the tallest mountains on Earth, Mount Everest probably comes to mind. But what if we told you that the real ...

At its height circa 1989, Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place on Earth. More than 35,000 people lived in an area of six and a half acres, giving it a density ten times that of ...

New metallic beetle species, Konradus trescrucensis, is discovered in the Andes. It has adapted to extremely cold weather.

Research maps nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves. Millions of Americans would meet WHO air quality limits by switching to electric cooking.

A vast, tangled cluster of dark patches has rotated into direct view, its magnetic fields twisted enough to invite ...

Self-organizing maps, and the machine learning protocol involved in creating them, have been in use since the 1980s, Lawrence ...

Strip away the impressive tech and Ashes of the Singularity's main hook is that it's big. Big wars, big battles, big weapons. Ashes of the Singularity 2 's hook is that it's even bigger, with ...

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or ...

A 6-year-old girl died following a Dec. 6, 2025, go-kart accident at Urban Air adventure park in Port St. Lucie, Florida.