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) ...

Northwestern students again have the chance to earn a free Blaze pizza by testing their world geography knowledge during the 2017-18 academic year. Launched in October 2016, the Wildcat GeoGame ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fun free game tests general knowledge challenging players to pin the right town, city or country Where were the FA cut finals held between 2001 and 2005 while Wembley was being rebuilt? If you said ...

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 ...