The tablet has several paragraphs of the cuneiform on its backside and above the map diagram describing the creation of the Earth and what ... the ancient scribe labeled the “bitter river ...

Even from space, you wouldn’t detect something important about Earth’s shape: It’s not perfectly round. It’s actually a ...

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

The black is where we still need modern measurements at a reasonable resolution We've just become a little less ignorant about Planet Earth ... the creation of a full map of the ocean floor ...

named for a carving over the doorway of a winged god plunging toward Earth. Distinguished by its highly expressive relief sculpture, Palenque comprises temples, terraces, plazas, altars ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists ... the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples recovered ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the ... The earliest ideas were from explorers and cartographers (people who drew maps). They noticed that coastlines of some countries looked like ...

With 140,000 neurons, 50 million synapses and over 100,000 cell label annotations, the fruit fly brain has been mapped and ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Ford Motor Company is celebrating the premium Black Label series in style ... travel and the moon as humans are trying to conquer Earth's natural satellite and start new manned missions there ...