The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and ...

However, a team of geologists from all over the world have compiled a new geological map containing Zealandia. The map was formed using a combination of rock samples recovered from the sea and ...

Scientists assembled the first piece of the map, which includes 208 gigapixels, from 260 observations made between March 25 and April 8. But it accounts for a tiny fraction of the broad survey ...

Astrolabes were the “world’s first smartphone,” according to Cambridge University in a blog post announcing the discovery, a “portable computer which could be put to hundreds of uses.” ...

Maps that show every neuron in a brain and all the myriad connections between them are called connectomes. The first organism ...

The introduction of writing systems changed the world. It allowed humans to physically express thoughts and language, as well as record events for future generations to study. Although different ...

Also highlighted on separate maps are comparisons of casualties between nations and the high cost the First World War had on their economies. The European geopolitical landscape has changed over ...