Canadian Geographic Education’s series of giant floor maps gives students a colossal dose of cartography and is a powerful teaching tool Ottawa’s St-Laurent Academy seems an unlikely setting for a ...

Until the 1950s, scientists didn't have a clear understanding of what the seafloor looked like. Geologist Marie Tharp turned years of data into easily digestible maps. She also discovered the ...

As though someone had pulled a plug in the oceans and drained them away, a sea-floor map has exposed thousands of never-before-seen underwater mountains and ridges. The map — generated by the ...

If you saw a bunch of shoppers walking around on Black Friday with their heads in their smartphones (or worse, their tablets), there are two likely explanations: The first, and most probable, is that ...