A map can take you on a journey, transporting you across continents and cultures all with a single glance. What started as a ...

We show you how the world map and countries looked back then. Many millions of years ago, the world looked very different.

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while others ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...

Safety for women traveling abroad has improved in recent years at a gradual rate, according to the findings of a Washington, D.C., institute. Newsweek spoke to Elena Ortiz, research manager at the ...