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 ...

A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

The U.S. capital is tiny compared to many of the world's largest cities, a new report on urbanization around the globe shows.

DALLAS (AP) — Viola Ford Fletcher, who as one of the last survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre in Oklahoma spent her later years seeking justice for the deadly attack by a white mob on the ...

The world's chemical pollution: Current state of research by Julia Reichelt, University of Kaiserslautern‑Landau edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Robert Egan Editors' notes ...

We’re about a quarter of the way through the 21st century. Summers across the global north are now defined by flash floods, droughts, heat waves, uncontainable wildfires, and intensifying named storms ...

FIFA are not considering expanding the current World Cup format to 64 teams ahead of the 2030 edition that will also celebrate the centennial edition of the first World Cup which took place in 1930, ...

TOKYO – Seven current and former Oklahoma State Track & Field athletes are set to compete in the World Athletics Championships from Sept. 13-21 in Tokyo. Cowboy senior Fouad Messaoudi is making his ...

The 2025 World Athletics Championships begin on Saturday in Tokyo as the world's best track and field athletes compete in the biggest event on the calendar in a non-Olympic year. The headlining races, ...

A federal court ruled Friday that Alabama’s current state Senate district map violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, banning voting laws that discriminate based on race. In a 261-page ...

SALT LAKE CITY — More than a year after the Utah Supreme Court said lawmakers overreached by changing a ballot initiative on redistricting, a lower court judge ruled Monday that the current maps can't ...