The mushroom is just the reproductive part of a larger fungus. For most species, the bulk of the organism is a network of ...

For centuries, cities had provided protection, psychic no less than physical, against what we now think of as nature: forest ...

Americans are now hit with tariffs when they shop from overseas sellers on eBay and Etsy. Shein and Temu had months to get ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

The map of the world as you know it – the Mercator projection – isn’t totally accurate. And Africa is leading the charge to get rid of it for good. Last week, the African Union, a continental union of ...

Samantha Biggs, now the assistant principal at Lakewood Ranch High School, received the 2025 Yale Educator Award.

Why is the pope getting flatmates? Can a map change the way we see the world? And why are seagull 'muggings' on the rise? Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really ...

The dam, which has the potential to transform the lives of millions of people in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa and East Africa ...

Officials said the data will help detect encroachments, expand the city’s land bank and support well-planned development ...

Minecraft fans may soon be able to explore Easdale Island — home of the World Stone Skimming Championships — without leaving ...

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief: that the brain’s map of the body reorganizes itself to compensate for missing body parts. Previous research 1 ...