Rediscover African Geographies

From one of the earliest depictions of the continent to the colonial scramble for land, these maps reveal a great deal about the people who have lived there through the centuries. To try to shed new light on the African archives held by the Royal Geographical Society,...

Mapping Diabetes by Economic Status

Those with low socioeconomic status have poorer health than other persons, and are less likely to have adequate access to care or to receive high-quality clinical and prevention care services. In the United States, diabetes is a potentially debilitating disease that...

Watch the Moon Evolve in Three Minutes

NASA\’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has traced the moon\’s early history as well as the latest trash left behind by moonwalkers, and now the team behind the mission has created a video smashing 4.5 billion years of the moon\’s existence into less...

MOON-ing Over Seismic Activity

The standard picture of the moon is of a long-dead object, geologically speaking. But using observations from cameras on board the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Thomas Watters and colleagues say in the journal Nature Geosciences that there are signs of more recent...