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Originally implemented to ensure safety during wild rice season, the software enables dispatchers to track accurate, real-time locations and communicate directly with callers in remote locations.

A new machine learning tool can reduce errors in national flood prediction programming, resulting in more accurate ...

I stumbled across Google Maps' Area 51 Easter egg by accident while searching for unusual locations online. When you hover over the restricted military base in Nevada, a small UFO icon appears instead ...

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Flood under the Old Route 49 bridge crossing over the South Yuba River in Nevada City, California. Credit: Kelly M. Grow/ ...

With the number of mountain rescue incidents caused by people relying on Google Maps rising, we explain why using it for hiking is a bad idea. The post Can I use Google Maps for hiking? appeared first ...

The park’s relative obscurity is partly due to its location – nestled in Charlton County, Georgia’s least populated county, about 80 miles from the nearest interstate highway. Getting here requires ...

Material deep inside Earth — thousands of kilometres down, near the planet’s core — has undergone a mysterious shift. Is ...

By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole ...

A 2014 astronaut photo shows a pair of volcanic lakes appearing to stare up into space from the Chiltepe Peninsula of ...