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Mapping the frequency of common toponyms opens window on Britain's 'deep history'.

Any dataset that can be quantified over time can be turned into a contest that is both exciting and (a little bit) enlightening.

The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.

The author of 'How We Read' Now explains.

Satire and an inflated sense of self-importance collide in a series of maps that goes back more than 100 years in American history.

Is there any good reason for assigning North and South the way we do, or could we have just as easily done the reverse?

The recently discovered Oort cloud comet, Bernardinelli–Bernstein, has the largest known nucleus: 119 km. Here's what it could do to Earth.

Without the now-obscure land investment affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."

The world's most isolated inhabited island also has some of the world's strangest toponyms.

Europe's border closures due to coronavirus go against a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Schengen Agreement.

Esoteric evidence points to a ritual performed by Queen Elizabeth's court magician John Dee.

Opponents of 19th-century American imperialism were not above body-shaming the personification of the U.S. government.

The Russian mindset is characterized by cynicism and distrust.

Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.

Every power source involves trade-offs. Given the challenges of increasing demand and climate change, what is the future of energy?

The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.

As Game of Thrones ends, a revealing resolution to its perplexing geography.

Is the experience we call "love" felt the same in every language?

Now an insult, 'cretin' was the medical term for a debilitating disease endemic in the Alps until the early 20th century.

To create wiser adults, add empathy to the school curriculum.

One silver lining of the pandemic: The value of common sense, facts and rational decisions increases.

The response to the pandemic illustrates five actions we can take to address the global climate change crisis.

Should other nations start requiring schools to teach climate science, too?

Electrochemical methods such as this could someday dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the planet.

'Kanal Istanbul' would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.

Answer: You don't want to get either.

We've known this virus was coming. We just didn't do anything about it.

What factors explain the gender pay gap?

A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.

Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.