At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

People in Mexico will still see the name Gulf of Mexico, with international users seeing both names, Google said. The change ...

Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...

Google says it will comply with President Trump's order to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," on Google ...

Humans have been making maps for as long as they’ve been exploring the Earth. Some of their cartographic maps went on to ...

William Playfair, the father of data visualisation, changed the way we understand information. His bar graphs, pie charts, ...

Researchers have discovered a 600-year-old lost city "frozen in time" in southern Mexico. Using groundbreaking technology, an ...

Scientists have recorded the largest structure in the known universe, Quipu, which is about 1.3 billion light-years wide.

Maps are ubiquitous—on phones, in-flight and car displays, and in textbooks the world over. While some maps delineate and ...

The micronation is not officially recognised by any country, but it claims over 29,000 registered citizens from around the ...