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A cyclist pauses outside the site of the supermarket shooting in Buffalo, N.Y. With the Tops store closed for the foreseeable future, the community around it has been left without easy access to healthy and affordable food.

The Buffalo shooting is a reminder that millions don't live near a grocery store

10:05am May 25, 2022

by Laurel Wamsley

Grocery stores provide healthy foods, create jobs and offer a place for community connection. "We started calling them front-line and essential workers for a reason," says one food access advocate.

Politics & Government

New congressional maps bring changes to Forsyth's district boundaries

5:00pm November 05, 2021

by Keri Brown

The North Carolina General Assembly finalized maps for the state's legislative and congressional districts that are supposed to last for the next decade.

Duke Alumnus Authors Paper On Memorializing The Middle Passage

4:06pm December 03, 2020

by Eddie Garcia

More than 12.5 million Africans were carried across the Atlantic on 40,000 slave-trading voyages.

Queue Listen Now

Left: Volunteers take part in a "mapathon" organized by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Right: OpenStreetMap contributors pinpoint dump sites along rivers and waterways in Dar es Salaam in an effort to predict and prevent flooding in the Tanzanian ci

After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue

2:42pm October 03, 2019

by Joanne Lu

Humanitarians are using crowdsourcing software to fill in blank spots on maps of disaster-prone countries.

The sun flares in the camera lens as it rises behind the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington.

Supreme Court Says Texas Political Map Is Largely Not A Racial Gerrymander

11:14am June 25, 2018

by Domenico Montanaro

The court said just one district is unconstitutional — House District 90. Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a scathing dissent that was five pages longer than the majority opinion.

World News

Understanding The Map Of Jerusalem, Or Trying To

5:09pm May 13, 2018

The move on Monday of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem endorses Israel's view of the city — where it has reshaped the map to solidify its hold.

Politics & Government

Newly Redrawn Districts Draw GOP Ire

11:21am November 20, 2017

by Paul Garber

Republican leaders are firing back at a federal court's decision to hire Stanford law professor Nathaniel Persily to redraw the state's legislative boundaries, saying the court never made a ruling

A map in Where the Animals Go shows how baboons move near the Mpala Research Centre in Kenya, as tracked by anthropologist Margaret Crofoot and her colleagues in 2012.

The Science And Art Of Mapping Animal Movements

2:08pm September 19, 2017

by Barbara J. King

Technology allows mapping of wildlife movements with new precision — and a fresh approach to conservation — as evidenced by Where the Animals Go, released Tuesday in the U.S., says Barbara J. King.

Politics & Government

Public Hearings Set For Proposed Legislative Maps

5:05pm August 21, 2017

by Keri Brown

Public hearings are taking place Tuesday across North Carolina to gather input on the newly drawn legislative districts.

Google published a map of most-searched-for spellings, by state.

National

Misspellings, Mapped: America The How-Do-You-Spell-Beautiful?

1:12pm May 31, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Just in time for the National Spelling Bee, Google published a map of the words people in each state have a hard time spelling. The results are not pretty. (And what's up with New Jersey?)