Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...
What comes to mind for many people upon picturing Africa is a vast land where safari animals roam freely and in tandem with ...
From Kazakhstan's vast steppes to Eritrea's Red Sea coast, these aren't your typical geography quiz countries—they're the ...
Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...
Mind maps show how visual structure connects ideas and establishes relationships between complex topics. Mind map examples highlight how layout, hierarchy, and color choices influence focus and ...
Musa Kazim Azimli, a fifth-year doctoral candidate in history at the University of Virginia, tells the stories of spaces that no longer exist. Specializing in slavery in the Middle East, his research ...
The announcement arrived like a bureaucratic sigh: next year’s Ekushey Boi Mela, the annual February book fair in Dhaka that consecrates the memory of Bangladesh’s 1952 language martyrs, would be ...
Oceanic manta rays dive to record depths of 1,250 meters (4,100 feet), according to a first-of-its-kind study to examine in detail the extreme deep-diving behavior of these rays. Researchers tracked ...
Damien Kelly, left, and Chakema Carmack, who authored a study about mental health care deserts in the Houston area, point to a map. Despite a growing demand for mental health care services among ...
Mental health care faces a growing challenge: too many patients, too few professionals. Across the country, millions struggle to find timely or affordable mental health support. A 2021 study found ...
When Nick Watkins was a child, he pasted articles about space exploration into scrapbooks and drew annotated diagrams of rockets. He knew this because, years later, he still had the scrapbooks, and ...
Scientists have found that oceanic manta rays routinely make extreme dives of more than 1,200 meters – three-quarters of a mile – but it's not to feed, nor is it happening everywhere in deep water.