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Google Maps is the only navigation service I use, and I’ve learned many of its tricks over the years. The default settings do a good enough…

Dubai Future Foundation has released a special edition of its annual Global 50 Report, presenting fourteen opportunities for international collaboration selected from more than 200 future…

Forgetting where you parked your car isn’t just a sitcom trope—though it does make for classic TV. Even in the age of the smartphone, it’s all…

The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1575, by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is often considered the world’s first atlas. The library has two copies. Greta Rybus/for NPR hide caption…

A 2020 assessment showed that out of 6,553 villages in Kashmir, more than 3,300 had freshwater springs — but over the past two decades, more than…