The human visual system provides us with a rich and meaningful percept of the world, transforming retinal signals into visuo-semantic representations. For a model of these representations, here we ...

Archaeologists have uncovered evidence of a ritual-based site that may have been built long before the rise of Maya rulers ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire. Combining ...

The newest exhibition at the David Rumsey Map Center, explores how maps go beyond traditional terrain, taking visitors to caves, a misguided town in the Alps and even the Moon.

Here is a close look at the common- versus differential-mode voltage and instrumentation amplifier (IA) topologies.

Contrails in the blue sky remind us of daily air traffic—and its impact on the climate. However, the effect of contrails on ...

The interstellar object 3I/Atlas has left astronomers amazed after data revealed it follows the most stretched and unusual orbit ever measured ...