Maps and nautical charts haven’t always been available to children. For many centuries, atlases sat mostly on the shelves of libraries and the wealthy, says Richard Panchyk, author of “Charting the ...

Roger Tomlinson, the man widely regarded as the father of GIS — Geographic Information Systems — has died at age 80. Tomlinson's 1960s innovation, using computer software to overlay different types of ...

This mandala combines visualizations of cell types in the mouse brain. (Illustration via Allen Institute) Neuroscientists have unveiled their most comprehensive and detailed map of cell types across ...

When Google bought Waze for $1.31 billion in 2013, everybody believed it was a matter of time before the app was axed. This approach would have made sense, especially because Google Maps was already ...

Researchers have created the largest atlas of human brain cells so far, revealing more than 3,000 cell types — many of which are new to science. The work, published in a package of 21 papers today in ...

One of the fundamental mysteries of biology is the basis of cellular state. Although they have essentially identical genomes, the different cell types in a multicellular organism maintain markedly ...

In July 2022, as much of the world experienced intense heat waves, many social media users attempted to downplay the extreme weather trend by accusing meteorologists of exaggerating the hot ...