Search Results

To get a sense of faraway places, these ‘atlases’ let the locals give you their perspective.

A new artificial intelligence method removes the effect of gravity on cosmic images, showing the real shapes of distant galaxies.

The British capital’s love affair with buckets and nuggets, explained

Some intriguing examples of people grooming the land for the unseen observer above.

Two house mouse subspecies meet again in a hybrid zone strangely reminiscent of the Iron Curtain

Your brain is remarkably good at mapping out physical spaces — even if it’s an imaginary space like Hogwarts. But how does the brain do it?

New book focuses on some of the world’s most peculiar borderlines.

Edinburgh University project geo-locates victims of Scottish ‘witch-prickers’ in the 16th and 17th century.

Coke, meth, ecstasy, amphetamines: each drug has a different ‘capital’

School diversity is less widespread in central and northern states

As this map of Bouguer’s gravity anomaly shows, the pull of the earth varies considerably by region.

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

The video fragment only shows increase in COVID-19 cases, reversing the video’s original message to induce panic.

‘The Broad and Narrow Way’ helped 19th-century preachers explain the consequences of virtue and vice.

Some say that the Sun is a green-yellow color, but our human eyes see it as white, or yellow-to-red during sunset. What color is it really?

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

Why a 400-mile enclosure around the North Sea is not as crazy as it sounds

Austro-Japanese aristocrat Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi later concentrated on plans for Pan-Europe.

The skeleton of the world’s oldest known shark attack victim exhibits telltale wounds.

Project to map global ‘species richness’ highlights the variety of biodiversity itself

It didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, but I’d be a great fool to consider “aliens” as a reasonable possibility.

These maps show surprising juxtapositions of ancient and modern toponyms of the Mother Continent.

There’s something special about islands – in some cases, it’s the price tag

Isogloss cartography shows diversity, richness, and humour of the French language

From the Big Bang to dark energy, knowledge of the cosmos has sped up in the past century — but big questions linger.

For the first time, light that comes from behind a black hole has been spotted.

Fittingly, the skull was found in the Rising Star cave of South Africa, itself located at a site known to UNESCO as the Cradle of Mankind.

Most of it was eaten by Earth’s mantle, but scraped-off bits survive in the Alps and other mountain ranges.

Invented in 1902 by an American, the ‘Middle East’ is all over the place.

Average waiting time for hitchhikers in Ireland: Less than 30 minutes. In southern Spain: More than 90 minutes.