Happy New Year! I’ve always felt that a fresh calendar represents a world of new opportunities, and I wish you all a fantastic 2026. For many, this is a season for reflection and self-improvement, ...

No audio available for this content. We leave as we came, and, God willing, we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.” —Astronaut Gene Cernan’s closing words, the twelfth and last person ...

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The award will fund the creation of an academic track in the field of geodesy, and the modernization of a key U.S. spatial database From left to right, Yehuda Bock, Raymond Thicklin, Rohith Rachala, ...

Coordinate reference systems (CRS) are so embedded in modern GIS workflows that many practitioners rarely pause to question them. Yet projection mismatches remain one ...

Mathematicians usually describe a position in space using coordinates in a coordinate system. But how does our brain do this? It has been known for some time that the target of an arm movement in some ...