This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A couple of weeks ago, I was writing up a ...

A high-resolution map of Mars's entire magnetic field provides new evidence that Earth-like plate tectonics - great crustal plates pulling apart and crashing together - underpin the red planet's ...

Smartphones and car navigation systems use GPS to pinpoint your current location with high accuracy. However, when you refer to your current location on Google Maps, it is often shown as a circle ...