Images of global weather patterns are projected onto the Science on a Sphere exhibit in the Ocean Science Center at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach in 2014. (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times) ...

You might know what Earth looks like on the ground, but how good are you at identifying terrestrial locations from above? Astronaut Scott Kelly, who recently arrived at the International Space Station ...

At a tournament in DC, students compete to identify states from their shapes on a blank US map. They're having fun while acquiring factual knowledge that enables them to think critically. The ...

Can you guess where this dusty, country road is? It looks like it could be in the American southwest, but it's actually in southeastern Australia—over 13,500 km away. Thanks to an addictive new ...

Since Wordle took the internet by storm earlier this year, there has been a slew of imitators competing for its crown. Many of these have been blatant rip-offs—utilizing the exact same premise while ...

Play this fun game with brand-new updates to practise your KS2 geography skills. The day has finally arrived for a brave group of explorers to join the ‘Race Across the Continents’ in their trusty hot ...

The most valuable piece of art in our house is a cheap, colorful map of the United States that hangs above our kitchen table. As a learning tool, it’s priceless. I hung it up when we moved from Texas ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This map is from a geographical ...

The geography quiz game Globle was a product of quarantine boredom, its popularity a happy side effect. While stuck working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Abe Train, 26, of Toronto, decided ...