Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect.

Thomas Homer-Dixon is executive director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University and professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo. If you want peace, prepare for war. This ancient ...

For this first weekend of the tournament, Providence hosts three Hall of Fame coaches in Rick Pitino at St John’s, Bill Self ...

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By Mark Landler Documents and insiders reveal how one of the world’s major money laundering networks operates. By Selam GebrekidanJoy DongChang W. Lee and Weiyi Cai Dozens of stranded migrants ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is mapping millions of celestial objects to better understand dark energy—the ...

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Last week, the BAS released Bedmap3, "the most detailed map yet" of Antarctica's landscape beneath its blanket of ice, a ...

The largest-ever three-dimensional map of the cosmos, plotting out some 15 million celestial objects, could help reveal the ultimate fate of the universe. Astrophysicists know that the universe is ...

Joshua Riibe, a college senior, has returned home after being questioned in the Dominican Republic about the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who is believed to ...