Think you know the world like a human GPS? 🌍In this ultimate guess-the-country challenge, you'll face 20 questions based on flags, landmarks, famous places, outlines, and clever clues. Some answers ...

With respect to Rick Hess’ Jan. 27 opinion blog post, “ Do Students Still Need to Learn Geography? ”, I appreciate his support for the importance of learning basic geography. That said, to reduce ...

Feted by royalty and friends with other intellectual luminaries of his day, George Forster was one history's greatest ...

A new study, analysing 24 years of data, has revealed how Assam’s shrinking forests, fragmented animal corridors, and expanding settlements and monoculture plantations — primarily tea — are driving ...

Danish artist Kasper Eistrup (b. 1973) works in what could be described as material world-building, wherein he balances painting and drawing as well as the paper or canvas supports are poetically ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, and today we can sequence thousands of human genomes to identify these ...

A new global dataset of 239 human-infective RNA viruses shows how animal hosts, vector transmission, surveillance gaps, and viral traits shape the path from spillover to epidemic threat. Study: A ...

WHAT BEGAN with strikes by America and Israel in Tehran has spilled across the Middle East. Iran has been hit thousands of times and struck back against neighbours with drones and missiles. The ...

A screenshot of the Pulitzer Center's interactive story map. My elementary school geography teacher used to make us trace maps from our textbooks. With a fine black marker we drew borders and wrote ...

It’s hard to imagine, but less than 200 years ago, Boston was surrounded by water. The city was basically an island, connected to the rest of the state only through a tiny spit of land. Neighborhoods ...

An illustration of multicolored tangle of threads within a small black sphere. A 3D illustration shows DNA packaged into the nucleus, scientists with the 4D Nucleome project are now building accurate ...

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 in Nature Communications. Researchers ...