The USA’s political standing with the majority of the 45 qualifying nations who compete next year could be more fraught then ...

A person's level of political engagement can be informed by myriad factors, from education to environment. Now, a new ...

Massive data processing warehouses are gobbling up land to support “the cloud.” This is a story about progress, balance – and ...

To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

Spatial intelligence will use AI to bring context to places. But the infrastructure behind it is raising big questions.

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

What is it like for athletes as they prepare for, and engage in, the physical and mental stressors of competing on the world’s stage? How do they harness the physical strength, mental focus and ...

The result was striking. A political division, not a physical one, determined who got measles and who didn't. Of the 633 Texarkana measles cases, 606 (nearly 96% of the total) occurred in people ...

Photo: UN Women/Ashutosh Negi Women’s equal participation and leadership in political and public life are essential to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. However, data show that ...

Correction: A graphic at the end of this piece should have stated that it cost $392 billion to maintain the federal debt so far in fiscal year 2025, not for the ...

Five years ago this week, the World Health Organization called the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. In the United States, officials declared a national emergency, triggering travel bans for non-U.S ...

Another way that the World Bank Group can contribute to attracting Foreign Direct Investment is by the provision of political risk insurance, and MIGA, for example, can provide foreign investors with ...