LONG BEFORE colonial surveyors mapped the subcontinent with triangulation chains and printed atlases, Jain scholars, merchants, and metalworkers in Gujarat were calculating latitude. They were ...

Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

The Johns Hopkins-created maps provide higher resolution and better coverage of gray matter than previously published maps, ...

Why do some melodies feel instantly right, balanced, memorable and satisfying, even if you have never heard them before? New research from the University of Waterloo suggests that more than creativity ...

The brain’s wiring forms a unique fingerprint that reveals how we think, remember, and make decisions. A new study offers the ...

Giulio De Leo, Stanford professor of oceans and earth systems and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, aims to decrease the transmission of schistosomiasis by lowering the ...

Across neurodegenerative diseases, the shape and spatial organization of pathology carry rich mechanistic information. Vacuoles, spongiosis, oligodendroglial coiled bodies, dendritic dystrophic ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

It’s easy to take maps for granted. After all, most of us have a pretty good map in our pockets at all times, ready to show us how to get anywhere on the globe. But to make a map useful, you have to ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

Bridges to Prosperity helps build trail bridges in rural communities. The nonprofit is using AI to map these areas and identify prospective bridge locations. This article is part of "Build IT: ...

Blink and you might have missed it. FATMAP is back! Well, sort of. As we already lamented here on POWDER, our favorite 3D mapping app FATMAP was shut off for good last fall after being acquired by ...