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

As technologies have evolved over millennia, so have the ways in which we’ve mapped the world. But the reasons we map remain the same. From geographic discovery, exploration, and storytelling to the ...

Google Maps has a new color palette, as the Mountain View-based search giant wanted to make the mapping platform more readable and easier to use while driving. I'm with Google on this one. Google Maps ...

Researchers identified some 3,300 types of brain cells, an order of magnitude more than was previously known, and have only a dim notion of what most of them do. By Carl Zimmer An international team ...

"Star maps, even though they show the world above, still reflect a lot of what's going on down below," he said. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...