We show you how the world map and countries looked back then. Many millions of years ago, the world looked very different.

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

Flat maps, designed to offer a consistent representation of Earth, reveal inaccuracies in countries' sizing. Some nations near the Poles appear significantly larger than they truly are, while others ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

Safety for women traveling abroad has improved in recent years at a gradual rate, according to the findings of a Washington, D.C., institute. Newsweek spoke to Elena Ortiz, research manager at the ...

Researchers have systematically detailed, step by step, how cognitive maps form in the brain's hippocampus -- a region responsible for learning and memory. Our brains build maps of the environment ...