Black activists have long used maps to help illustrate their communities’ history and to document historical injustices.

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

In a statement explaining its decision, the AP said Trump has the authority to change the mountain’s name, but the gulf is a global name ...

As of Wednesday night, map applications for Google and Apple still called the mountain and the gulf by their old names.

(AP Photo/Bruna Prado) Taty Almeida, member of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, joins in a protest in front of the Secretary for Human Rights against the layoffs at the secretariat proposed by the ...

(AP Photo/Andres Kudacki) The rescue team carries the body of a passenger at the site of a plane fire at Muan International Airport in Muan, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Ahn ...

If we turn back the clock to when Homo sapiens is believed to have evolved – around 300,000 years ago – we will find that there were a lot of other human species around. I wish I could give ...

Human composting turns bodies into soil by speeding up “what happens on the forest floor,” according to Tom Harries, CEO of Earth Funeral, the human composting company the Muckenhoupt family ...

A new artificial intelligence (AI) model has just achieved human-level results on a test designed to measure “general intelligence”. On December 20, OpenAI’s o3 system scored 85% on the ARC ...

This speed is millions of times slower than the input rate, as the human body’s sensory systems gather data about the surrounding environment at a rate of a billion bits per second. Researchers ...

Scientists have finally quantified the brain’s speed limit in processing human thought, an advance that reveals why we are able to process only one thought at a time. The human body’s sensory ...