A set of mysterious grooves on a cave floor in France has turned out to be far more than abstract art. Archaeologists now ...

A database of 2.75 billion buildings could help scientists to monitor urban planning, climate change, disaster risks and even ...

A visual illustration of the mountain peaks, along with satellite checks on human-induced activities, lays bare the ...

In a landmark effort to understand how the physical structure of our DNA influences human biology, Northwestern investigators and the 4D Nucleome Project have unveiled the most detailed maps to date ...

A DETAILED 3D map of all the buildings in the world has been modelled – can you guess these famous landmarks? Combining nearly 800,000 satellite images, the map shows the location and size ...

The map is called the GlobalBuildingAtlas, and you can access it online now. Compared to previous databases of this type, such as the Microsoft Building Footprint database, it offers information on ...

From historic homes in Edinburgh to towering skyscrapers in Shanghai, you can now explore every building in the world from ...

For most of human history, maps have flattened the world. Cities appeared as outlines, buildings as blocks of colour, and entire neighbourhoods were reduced to symbols on paper or screens. That ...

A new study shows, for the first time, how the human genome folds and moves in 3D over time to control when genes turn on and ...

With the GlobalBuildingAtlas, a research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has created the first high-resolution 3D map of all buildings worldwide. The open data provides a crucial ...

In asmall cave tucked away south of Paris, scientists believe they’ve stumbled upon something extraordinary: what might be ...

The Edmonton Police Service (EPS) piloted a new technology in the fall that could track officers and pedestrians at ...