The islands off Iran have become the latest focus of the war after a U.S strike destroyed military sites on Kharg Island.

A Stejneger’s beaked whale skeleton has hung in Storer Hall for over 40 years. (Courtesy) Long ago, on a faraway Aleutian island, a pair of rare beaked whales got stranded. One was saved by biologists ...

Discover the extreme conditions, intense combat, and human endurance in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. From banzai charges to frostbite, this video captures the courage and tragedy of the ...

Stretching between Alaska and the Pacific Ocean, the Aleutian Islands form a remote chain of volcanic landscapes shaped by wind, water, and time. This aerial view reveals rolling green hills, winding ...

Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen continent's ice sheet has revealed a previously hidden world of mountains, deep ...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) has completed the world’s first on-chain disbursement of universal basic income (UBI) using a digitally native sovereign bond, USDM1, via the Stellar ...

From the latest skyscraper in a Chinese megalopolis to a six‑foot‑tall yurt in Inner Mongolia, researchers at the Technical University of Munich claim they have created a map of all buildings ...

Scientists have produced the most detailed 3D map of almost all buildings in the world. The map, called GlobalBuildingAtlas, combines satellite imagery and machine learning to generate 3D models for ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

What do social climbers and gossipmongers have in common? My mother would tell me that both are morally suspect. This moral umbrage is etched into lessons from fairy tales and scripture that we ...