Researchers mapped exactly where buildings are in the world and how much space they take up. The result is a mind boggling ...

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 team of Germany-based researchers recently unveiled GlobalBuildingAtlas, which is likely the most detailed 3D map of buildings ever developed. Introduced earlier this month, the database ...

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

The top 10 included in ACLED's deadliness ranking for 2025 were Ukraine, Sudan, the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Myanmar, ...

The world is growing bigger every year. Not literally, of course—unless you count population growth—but figuratively, with ...

Italy is preparing to spend roughly $12.7 billion on a bridge that would finally stitch Sicily to the mainland, a project ...

The World Health Organization says Israel’s bombardment in Gaza for the past two years has left tens of thousands of ...

Around the world, trail designers are quietly employing surprising techniques to engineer awe. You’ve probably felt it ...

The windowless newsroom of The Phoenix, the Loyola University Chicago newspaper, hums like an old refrigerator. A coffee pot burbles in the corner as juniors Julia Pentasuglio and Ella Daugherty lean ...

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

An interactive map has shown the catastrophic damage that could be inflicted by a Russian nuclear strike on three strategic ...