Last year, Americans spent more than 300 billion minutes on navigation apps, like Waze or Google Maps.The GPS systems in our ...

World Animal Protection releases groundbreaking data which shows elephants held at Six Flags Wild Safari in New Jersey, endure constant vibrations as strong as small earthquakes — every day the park ...

A new world map shows how Earth’s crust is loaded and where it is closest to failure. The release compiles 100,842 stress entries, more than double since 2016. The project is run at the GFZ Helmholtz ...

Exoplanets are planets outside Earth's solar system that most often orbit a star. Astronomers have managed to bring an exoplanet into unprecedented focus by using a technique the researchers call 3D ...

Scouring the corners of Google Earth and Maps has become an interesting way for people to explore the planet, and sometimes they come across the most unexpected finds. From random snapshots of humans ...

Google Maps has incorrectly marked the Don Valley Parkway highway in Toronto as closed on Saturday, directing users to alternative roads if navigation was enabled in their cars. Drivers who weren't ...

Earth’s carbon storage capacity is an important variable in determining how much carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that causes warming, can be removed from the atmosphere and safely tucked away for ...

President Donald Trump ordered flags to be flown at half-staff following the fatal shooting of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk at a Turning Point USA event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah ...

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 ...

This work was completed under affiliations with the University of California (UC), Berkeley, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).

The African Union endorsed a map that reflects the truer relative size of the continent. (map public domain via Equal Earth) The African Union, an intergovernmental organization of 55 African ...