With fears of another World War continuing to escalate, many in the world are wondering where they may be able to find a safe ...

Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human body cell by ...

It also now states, in Putin’s words, that Russia is ‘entitled to use our weapons’ against countries which allow their ...

The world's oldest known map, which has been missing for years but has not been missed, was relocated yesterday in the basement of the Center for International Affairs by a Harvard sophomore.

Legend has it that a headless sculpture of the god Yaxachtun at the site formerly terrified the local Lacandon people, who feared that the world would end when the head was replaced. With its ...

Alberto Cantino, an Italian spy, acquired a Portuguese map showing stunning finds in the New World. This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...