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Most counties in the U.S. have only one local newspaper, often one that publishes weekly instead of daily.
The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.
Across the subterranean United States, not all rocks were created equally.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
Nevada has the fewest number of native-born citizens.
Seventy-five years after the anomaly's discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.
Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.
All roads may not lead to Rome, but many of them lead to wealth and prosperity — even 1,500 years after the fall of the Roman Empire.
The average age of cannabis users is increasing. Weed may fall out of fashion before it becomes legal everywhere.
Though over three billion people speak an Indo-European language, researchers are not sure where the language family originated.
Two populations that are geographically separated today once mated a very long time ago.
If you want to sleep more, try working less, eating better, and exercising more. Alternatively, you could emigrate to Albania.
Scientists don't understand why the correlation exists.
According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.
These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).
The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.
London’s busiest airport seems to be rebounding well from the pandemic — but Istanbul has better prospects in the long run.
A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.
Quelle horreur! Paris isn't just a 15-minute city; it's a five-minute city.
The Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas are the last surviving fragments of a body of water that stretched from Austria to Turkmenistan.
“Who is the aggressor?” That depends on which of these maps you believe.
Dig a 70-mile tunnel under the Bering Strait, and you get this amazing InterContinental Railway, which will reshape the world.
Parking lots are about one-fifth of all land in U.S. city centers, making them "easy to get to, but not worth arriving at."
When you turn a map of East Asia upside down, Beijing’s geographic constraints and regional ambitions become much clearer.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Almost 18,000 projects, brought together on one clickable map.