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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Johns Hopkins University (JHU) continues to pad its space community résumé with its interactive map, “The map of the observable Universe,” that takes viewers on a 13.7-billion-year-old tour of the ...

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 ...

A new first-of-its-kind map has identified potential locations of naturally occurring geologic hydrogen resources in the contiguous United States—a potentially huge untapped future energy source.

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, ...

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

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 ...