David Savage probably never expected to look down and see someone else’s hand attached to his right arm. Neither did he anticipate using the strange appendage to illuminate how the brain works. But ...

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 offers more than just intense combat and engaging quests; it’s a world full of surprises. As you ...

The brain holds space for a missing limb, even years after it’s gone. For three women who underwent planned hand amputations, brain scans revealed remarkably durable maps of hand areas, lasting for ...

Last month, I asked Slate readers to send me their hand-drawn maps. The request was part of my series on signs, the tools that professionals use to orient us and direct us from point A to point B. But ...

Researchers have found that the brain stores detailed information of a missing hand decades after amputation, regardless of whether amputees still experience phantom hand sensations. Researchers have ...

I recently stumbled onto Jack Kerouac's hand-drawn map from the hitchhiking trip that ultimately became On the Road. It's simple, just a few lines and some notes. But it's not more than that; it's ...

On the East Coast, where people "don't have a good idea of what the rest of the country looks like," it's helpful, in conversation, to have a map. So Glen Lindeke drew one. Now his maps (two, in fact) ...

A woman loses her hand, yet her brain doesn’t seem to notice. Months later, when she tries to “move” her phantom fingers, the same pattern of brain activity lights up as it did before surgery. A study ...

Cartographic excellence can sometimes come second to visual storytelling. “Maps and memories are bound together; a little as songs and love affairs are,” writes Adam Gopnik in the preface to ...

BOSTON, Sept 13 (Reuters Life) - As high-tech mapping services such as Garmin, Google and MapQuest make finding directions easier than ever, a new movement has revived interest in maps made by hand, ...