Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.

The Philippines is an archipelagic and maritime country that sits strategically in the Southeast Asia region. It occupies a ...

A better understanding of the bedrock can help researchers calculate how quickly the continent's melting glaciers might ...

The world is a big place, so realistically, most people probably can’t accurately label every single country on a map. But we ...

For over a century and a half, life expectancy has steadily increased in the wealthiest countries. Spectacular climbs in ...

Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

In a study published in the Journal of Historical Geography, researchers Dr. Chris McCarthy and his colleagues have ...

The Vinland Map carries with it the air of mystery and, some would say, the stench of deception. In the vaults of Yale University, and insured for $25 Million, it is either a colossal fraud or an ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

Human gene maps contain major blind spots because they were built largely from the DNA sequences of people with European ancestry, according to a study published today in Nature Communications.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Nathan MacDonald with Christopher Froschauer's 1525 Old Testament open at Lucas Cranach the Elder's map of the Holy Land ...

Europe's path to peace does not run through weapons but through diplomatic memory. Istanbul and Helsinki remain two crucial waypoints Europe must revisit to shape its future Europe must now move from ...