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Most counties in the U.S. have only one local newspaper, often one that publishes weekly instead of daily.

This first-of-its-kind image offers a detailed look at the magnetic fields within the Central Molecular Zone.

Economics and religion help to explain the gap.

Absence makes the heart (and public opinion) grow fonder.

The salinity of the oceans is not just a matter of taste. Saltier water behaves differently, too.

The hidden story behind Greek surnames and how they trace family origins across the country — starting with the name of a would-be U.S. president.

The $21.5-billion project could involve tunneling hundreds of feet under Lake Geneva.

The Gallup World Poll reveals regional peaks and valleys of happiness across all of the continents.

Across the subterranean United States, not all rocks were created equally.

Thanks to the Coriolis force, hurricanes never cross the equator.

How has tennis changed in recent decades? The wear and tear on Wimbledon’s Centre Court may tell the tale.

Waistlines are expanding in most countries, except for a skinny list of nations bucking the trend.

“The Big Map of Who Lived When” plots the lifespans of historical figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan.

19 rooms. 1,636 square feet. 1,800 years of history.

Early modern humans interbred with Neanderthals — and scientists recently pinpointed a key site of contact.

A basement renovation project led to the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: the Derinkuyu Underground City, which housed 20,000 people.

Because of their large and unfriendly neighbor to the east, the Baltics would rather be Scandinavian.

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.

The Trojan War was fought in Finland and Ulysses sailed home to Denmark, says one controversial theory.

Legally smoking joints in city centers will require alertness and a keen sense of orientation — two things stoners are not known for.

The Sovereign State of the Bektashi Order would be just one quarter the size of Vatican City.

According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.

London’s busiest airport seems to be rebounding well from the pandemic — but Istanbul has better prospects in the long run.

Seventy-five years after the anomaly’s discovery, scientists have finally figured out why sea levels are so much lower here.

Digital analyses of Enlightenment-era letters are teaching us a thing or two about Locke, Voltaire, and others.

Opponents of America’s entry into the looming Second World War believed the U.S. would be dismembered.

Reject your Mental Map Oversimplifications.

Scientists don’t understand why the correlation exists.

You could call this rectangle covering parts of Iran, Iraq, and the Arabian Peninsula the “Oven Window.”

These landscapes — of geographical differences in head shapes — have vanished from acceptable science (and cartography).