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As this typewritten map shows, constraints can be freeing.
A new study warns of millions of “lost Einsteins.”
The Saudi blockade of its tiny neighbour Qatar could soon change the very geography of the region.
Huawei sold about 54 million smartphones last quarter, achieving a record-high global market share of 15.8 percent.
Thought experiment: What if you graft Israel’s borders onto the San Francisco Bay Area?
Researchers have just discovered the remains of a hybrid human.
In recent months, Russian ships have been spotted near the underwater cables that enable telecommunications service between North America and overseas nations.
Isn’t the world of dogs about more than (British) bulldogs and (French) poodles?
The Galapagos Islands are among the most fascinating places on Earth. Their uniqueness has inspired science to make many important discoveries there.
Name one French coastline. Great. Now name another. Can’t? Here are all 36.
One study of what makes a psychopath who they are shows a difference based on country.
Mind-boggling as it is, some of the world’s roundest countries are also some of the most rectangular ones.
You can get a pizza even in Pyongyang. But is it Italian?
The first rule of Vulture Club: stay out of Portugal.
Faith is in retreat, atheism is on the march. But only in China does a majority positively state they don’t believe in God.
A new study from the University of Oxford reveals what foods are, and are not, healthy for the environment.
One of the makers of the iPhone is calling on Apple to study the smartphone’s addictive nature. Will they listen? Will we?
She met mere mortals with and without the Vatican’s approval.
Mark Twain once said that God created war so that Americans would learn geography. Twain died before World War I, but his sardonic remark still has meaning.
The correlation is more prominent in women than men.
Experts caution about the dangers of the current technological revolution at the annual gathering of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
A phonetic map to help Warsaw Pact soldiers find their way around the Home Counties
You think the collapse of the Soviet Union was chaotic? You should have seen the start.
Technical knowledge continues to be privileged over social knowledge.
A study finds how hits from giant meteorites during Earth’s early days impacted plate tectonics and the planet’s magnetic field.
If most people knew the details, they might feel very differently about the games.
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Comparing NYC to Luxembourg, by way of iceberg A-68
Considering that the United States remains the world’s only superpower, that begs the question: How informed are Americans when it comes to their country’s vast global power?