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 ...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 204,605 conflict events from December 1, 2024 to November 28, 2025, resulting in over 240,000 deaths, in its newly released Conflict ...

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 ...

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If you use Excel 40 hours a week (and those are the weeks you are on vacation), welcome to the MrExcel channel. Home to 2,400 free Excel tutorials. Bill "MrExcel" Jelen is the author of 67 books about ...

IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

The Mercator map, first created in the 16th century, has long been the standard map used for navigation and education, but it stretches land masses farther from the equator. For example, Greenland ...