Physicists are learning to treat light not as an untouchable beam that simply passes through matter, but as something that ...

Map scales close map scaleThe ratio of the length of a feature on a map to the same length in real life. are often written as a ratio, eg 1 : 250,000. They can also be written using measurements, eg 2 ...

PITTSBURGH—Cindy Brewer seemed to attract a small crowd everywhere she went at a recent cartography conference here. If she sat, students and colleagues milled around, waiting for a chance to talk to ...

At least we've got videogames to keep us travelling in the middle of a pandemic. If you're looking for more places to visit, a Minecraft player has recreated the Hawaiian Islands in a "fully playable" ...

In 1629, an elderly Scottish woman named Isobel Young was strangled and burned at the stake on charges of witchcraft. As neighbors and relatives testified, Young—the wife of a tenant farmer based in a ...

In June, Business Insider published an investigation into the data center industry. We wanted to dig into the pace of growth in light of the artificial intelligence boom, as well as the resources the ...