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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.

In post-Soviet nations where ministers have a relatively high BMI, corruption tends to be high, too.

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.

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

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

In 1980, Willy Brandt drew a line across the map that still influences how we think about the world.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

A member of a species that kills trees, this mushroom is not the first to be called the Humongous Fungus — and perhaps not the last.

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

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

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

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

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

A new railway will switch the Baltic region’s train gauge from Soviet to standard European — a megaproject with political, economic, and military dimensions.

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