However, the open-source project isn’t about bragging rights. With over 2.75 billion buildings detailed in the map, the ...

The map has been released by the Dark Energy Consortium and the aim is to produce reference points for scientists to understand where dark matter is, what it is made from and to study the curious ...

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Crispian Jago makes completely transparent attempts to get linked from blogs. The thing is, he keeps doing spectacular stuff! This time it’s a metro-subway-style map showing scientists of the past 400 ...

A new catalogue of the visible Milky Way is the most detailed yet, charting 219 million distinct stars in the region we can see from Earth. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to ...

How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and mapped the ancient Roman road system, the answer — truly — is every day. And now, anyone can ...

Events and armies were moving so fast last week that newspaper mapmakers could not keep up with them. According to the Brussels radio, many American tanks had outrun the maps they had and new ones had ...

Along a great arc sweeping from the equator in mid-Atlantic to Irkutsk in central Siberia, the sun will be in total eclipse on Feb. 25. Last week an expedition of scientists from the U.S. Air Force, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

It might just be the greatest graphic design challenge of all: How do you straighten out the spaghetti bowl that is the London Tube, Paris Metro, or New York City Subway to make an easy-to-use transit ...