nuclear reactors show up as dark red "hotspots" of antineutrino activity. On the map the Himalayas appear hot. The Earth’s crust beneath those highest mountain peaks, it turns out, is rich in ...

While Maps is more for getting around places, Google Earth is more focused on letting people discover the Blue Planet. And that happens to include that blue marble's place in the cosmos ...

Take a clay model of Earth and squish it with your fingers, and the result may look similar to the geoid — the latest and best-ever map of our planet's gravitational field. The latest Earth ...

As part of recent research, we worked with a team of international collaborators to build a computer model to show just how much ... our GPlates software. Map of the Earth’s rigid plates with ...

The picture above is not actually a map of the topography * (height variation) of the Indian Ocean seafloor, as much as it looks like it. It’s actually a map of the change in the Earth’s ...

Where Are the World’s Rare Earth Mineral Deposits? A new global map, based on U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) data, pinpoints ...

Today’s forecast: cloudy with a chance of maps ... satellite images of Earth without clouds, it’s news. MODIS cloud observations from July 2002 to April 2015 show Earth has some perpetually ...

Along with our colleagues, we have published the first whole-Earth plate tectonic map of half-a-billion years of Earth history, from 1,000 million years ago to 520 million years ago. We now have a ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A digital map of the Earth goes back 750 million years through the extinction of the dinosaurs. Users can enter a city name to see what it looked like several centuries ago. Ian Webster ...