From corridors to cognition: How the brain builds mental maps of the world
Our brains build maps of the environment that help us understand the world around us, allowing us to think, recall, and plan. These maps not only help us to, say, find our room on the correct floor of ...
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Penguins Help to Map Antarctica’s Growing Mercury Threat
When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...
A wealth of evidence: Machine learning approach leads to a 'living systematic map' of climate policy research
Research on climate policy is growing exponentially. Of the approximately 85,000 individual studies ever published on policy ...
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Here’s what we know about the victims of the Bering Air plane crash
The 10 Alaskans killed in the crash near Nome include a mentor to new teachers, a school counselor and two Alaska Native ...
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The complicated business of changing digital map names and boundaries
Google says it will comply with President Trump's order to change the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America," on Google ...
11,000-year-old indigenous site — one of oldest on continent — found in Canada. See it
A researcher looking at erosion along a Canada river discovered an ancient indigenous site. Screengrab from Sturgeon Lake First Nation Official's Facebook post Just north of Prince Albert in central ...
Lasers aid river search for debris from plane and helicopter collision near DC
Crews continuing to search for debris from the deadly collision of a passenger jet and Army helicopter near Washington used a ...
Woman on hunger strike outside Downing Street over son's imprisonment in Egypt
Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...
Live Kansas City traffic updates: Accidents, road closures, delays on KC-area highways
There are currently no traffic incidents reported in this area. The road is closed between I-670 West and West 14th Street in ...
Alaska plane that disappeared with 10 people aboard has been found with no survivors, officials say
An aircraft matching the description of the regional airline flight that disappeared in Alaska with 10 people aboard Thursday ...
Alaska missing plane: What happened to the vanished Bering air flight near Nome
Rescue crews are in a race against time to find survivors aboard the Bering Air Flight 445 and are working in ‘zero ...
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Crews in Alaska search for missing plane with 10 passengers on board
Crews in Alaska are searching for a plane that went missing with 10 people on board Thursday afternoon. Alaska State Troopers ...