Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

In his effort to depict the three-dimensional Earth on a two-dimensional map, Mercator made places far from the equator look relatively larger. This is why Greenland appears about the same size as ...

However, Greenland is actually much smaller than it appears on maps because of the Mercator projection ... including rare earth minerals. These minerals are vital for high-end military, green ...

In December, perhaps in anticipation of Trump’s return to office, China announced that it was banning the sale of several rare-earth minerals ... “I love maps,” Trump told them, perhaps referring to ...

A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides the first empirical evidence that ...

USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

"This is, I think, something that has really shown to some degree how much the U.S. was living in a bubble," said Antonia Hmaidi, a senior analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...

If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that ...