Billionaires are planning their own for-profit private cities across the world, from Forest City in Malaysia to Prospera in ...

Connie Francis was 87 years old when she posted her first TikTok earlier this year, marveling at an impossible second act: a ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

A literary icon since 1906, the Porto shop has enchanted readers with its breathtaking architecture and rare book collection.

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U.S. sanctions against Russian oil majors Lukoil and Rosneft could trigger a structural reshaping of the global oil sector over the next year, reversing Moscow's decades-long efforts to expand its ...

Thermal satellites map block-level heat islands, letting cities target cool pavement and shade where they deliver the biggest ...

Most of Bhavani Thekkada's competitors grew up on skis. She grew up on a coffee farm — in southern India. So as a ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

From a digital vantage point in orbit, scientists have mapped every building on Earth—2.75 billion structures, all in 3D.

In the mid-1700s, Denmark tried to capture its natural world in ink and copper. Artists and scholars spent more than a ...

The speed at which glaciers move changes predictably each year, according to the first-ever global map of how glacier and ice sheet speeds vary with the seasons. Knowing this yearly rhythm could help ...