Release your inner explorer. Here’s a way to relive, commemorate or envision a favorite place in the world by creating an illustrated map. By Nate Padavick Travel and travel planning are being ...

In what the agency hopes will spur a major leap in American geoscience, the U.S. Geological Survey has released a new mapping tool that allows anyone to peer into the earth beneath their feet. Dubbed ...

You share more than a zip code with your neighbors. You also share bugs---microscopic organisms (think bacteria, fungi, and viruses). These microbial communities are called microbiomes, and they seem ...

One day, next to the traffic map and weather forecast on your smartphone, seismologist Thomas H. Jordan envisions an app that you can check to see when the chances of a major earthquake in California ...