The African Union (AU) has endorsed a campaign to use a map that represents Africa more accurately than the traditional Mercator map that is mostly used today. The currently-used map was drawn up in ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But on the Equal Earth projection showing continents in ...

President Donald Trump has exaggerated and, at times, misstated statistics and facts about crime in Washington, D.C., to justify his decision to deploy the National Guard in the city. Despite violent ...

About two years after the US Food and Drug Administration approved the first over-the-counter birth control pill in the United States, a new study suggests that many people who may not have had access ...

I co-created Graph Neural Networks while at Stanford. I recognized early on that this technology was incredibly powerful. Every data point, every observation, every piece of knowledge doesn’t exist in ...

OpenAI is rolling out new safety measures for ChatGPT, aiming to strengthen protections for users in distress. The move comes after the family of a teenager filed a lawsuit blaming the chatbot for his ...

Ella Emhoff, stepdaughter of former Vice President Kamala Harris, complained to her TikTok followers that she was struggling with "climate anxiety" — after showcasing a plastic bag or two online the ...