The European Space Agency’s new probe, Biomass, will spend five years orbiting the planet and gathering radar imagery of forests across multiple continents ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

Researchers have created the largest and most detailed wiring diagram of a mammalian brain to date, by mapping cells in a ...

New drone technology maps land and water with stunning accuracy, giving researchers and conservationists a new way to understand our planet.

Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

Google is opening up its Google Maps Platform data so that cities, developers, and other business decision makers can more ...

This study presents a valuable open-source and cost-effective method for automating the quantification of male aggression and courtship in Drosophila melanogaster. The work as presented provides solid ...

If they both completely melted, they would raise sea level by an estimated 67.4 meters (223 feet). Long-term satellite data indicate that through most of the twentieth century, the ice sheets made ...

Google says it uncovered thousands of illegitimate listings, including for fake businesses, on Google Maps and has announced a lawsuit against the alleged scammers behind the fraud. The lawsuit ...

C. Cuillandre The Euclid space telescope is on a mission to map more than one third of the entire sky, observing billions of galaxies over a span of six years to gather data about the universe’s ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than 60 years' worth of data from satellites, ships and dog-drawn sleds.