For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

What if the famous map of Broad Street played no role in determining how cholera spread? Or if John Snow didn't make the ...

Researchers have analyzed ancient DNA from Borrelia recurrentis, a type of bacteria that causes relapsing fever, pinpointing when it evolved to spread through lice rather than ticks, and how it gained ...

Although he had promised—and campaigned on—a policy of American neutrality in World War II the year before, Roosevelt ached to help the Allies stem the increasingly ravenous Nazi threat sweeping ...

NASA scientists rediscovered an abandoned U.S. nuclear base that lies entombed beneath at least 100 feet of ice.

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Apple Maps started offering a public web interface in beta testing last year. That web version of Maps is now compatible with Chrome on your Android phone. Apple Maps in Chrome still lacks some ...

Apple today updated its support document for Apple Maps on the web to add a mention that the feature now works on the iPhone, which appears to be relatively new. A prior version of the support ...

Just a few years ago, many of us had to navigate the open road with physical maps or printouts in the pre-smartphone internet era. While it did introduce a thrilling game of whether or not you ...

Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., declared on CNN Monday that the average middle American probably has no idea where Greenland is on a world map. Appearing on CNN’s “Inside Politics,” Coons made the ...

I enter that address in Maps and it is located. I now want to search for, say, used bookstores near that location. How do I do it? Scenarios like this were very common for me too, pre-iOS 18.