GPS helps everyone from moms and dads and Amazon drivers to ship's captains get where they need to go. How did ships navigate ...

“Translations’ seemed to be everywhere in the last two decades of the 20th century but now ... determined to create an accurate map of Ireland (part of the Ordinance Survey), which they ...

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic Mercator Projection look outright dull.

An American surveillance society that fully stitched together the data the government already possesses would require ...

In law enforcement, national security, and pop culture, the lie detector is the gold standard of truth, but how reliable are ...

With their flanks and supply lines relatively secure, they began redrawing the map ... very system that has kept the peace for generations. Trade wars don’t just raise prices. They unravel alliances ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of ... of the New World’s few troves of arguably Elizabethan artifacts, all in the very place ...

A map shows the distribution of the slave population ... “He said things that sound almost like a 20th-century vision researcher,” Spence adds. Data, Playfair wrote, should “speak to the ...

But that does not mean the world was empty of people whose behaviors ... Air and water pollution have also been posited. Such 20th-century factors accord with the history of autism as a diagnosis ...

High Tech Dreams of the Ancient World After ... In the 18th century, archaeologists unearthed more than 1,800 papyri from the ruins of a Roman villa in Herculaneum. Before the professionalization of ...

Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s “Eminent Jews.” ...