In today’s newsletter, an unlikely Met Gala spotlight; the rocket that blasted above a swamp; hope and a hibiscus flower and … from capturing crickets to an award.

The World Glacier Inventory (WGI) contains information for over 130,000 glaciers, or about 85% of the total estimated number of glaciers. Inventory parameters include geographic location, area, length ...

Recent advances in LiDAR technology have opened up new possibilities for robotic navigation. Given the widespread use of occupancy grid maps (OGMs) in robotic motion planning, this paper aims to ...

The best images this year from National Geographic’s photo community—curated from thousands of photographers and over a million photographs Your Shot photographer Aya Okawa captured this image ...

For automated driving technology with a fusion localization system, especially the matching of vector high-definition (HD) maps with vision data for localization, the complexity of the localization ...

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From London to Wisconsin, one-day gin academies across the globe let the public brew their own spirits. You might not go home with a diploma—but you will go home with the world’s rarest gin.

Each year the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization convenes to determine which sites will be granted World Heritage status in recognition of their outstanding value to ...

Astronomers are excited about the first test images released today from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which show the universe in unprecedented detail, from violent cosmic collisions to faraway ...

Newly discovered fragments of 2,200-year-old star coordinates—once thought lost—reveal the incredible skill of the ancient astronomer Hipparchus.

The map that NASA launched in 1972 could lead extraterrestrials to Earth. A new map, nearly 50 years later, provides even better directions.

Today is World Refugee Day – a day to honour the courage and resilience of millions of people around the globe forced to flee war, violence and persecution. But it is also a moment to sound an alarm ...