Our thoughts are specified by our knowledge and plans, yet our cognition can also be fast and flexible in handling new information.

Scientists reveal that the scale of analysis determines whether invasive plants succeed by resembling or differing from ...

SEF 2026 is expected to bring together more than 14,000 global attendees and over 300 business leaders, motivational speakers, and investors, under the theme Where We Belong. For more information and ...

Turning a boring 2D photo into a more dynamic, 3D-like viewing experience might sound impossible. But you can do it right from your phone running iOS 26, thanks to Apple's new Spatial Scenes. Apple's ...

iOS 26 introduced a fresh new look to iPhones with the Liquid Glass design. But it actually isn't the only upgrade that adds visual appeal to your device. One of the other visually interesting ...

From startups to giants in pharma and tools, the use of spatial biology is growing in importance in drug discovery. LatchBio, a four-year-old San Francisco builder of software and data infrastructure ...

No audio available for this content. In my August 2025 GPS World newsletter column, I highlighted that a colleague reminded me that the National Geodetic Survey’s (NGS) new National Spatial Reference ...

Few things generate as much data as simply observing Earth from above. But Ryan Abernathey and Joe Hamman very quickly realized that all that data still wasn’t enough for their startup to thrive.

The Earth is awash in data about itself. Every day, satellites capture around 100 terabytes of imagery. But making sense of it isn’t always easy. Seemingly simple questions can be fiendishly complex ...

Is your feature request related to a problem? Currently, QuestDB lacks native support for geospatial data types (e.g., points, polygons) and functions (e.g., distance calculations, spatial indexing).

The Overture Maps Foundation, a collaborative effort to build interoperable open map data, is offering the general availability of its Global Entity Reference System (GERS)—providing a unique ID for ...

Open the Planetary Computer data catalog and you will find all kinds of useful data: from decades’ worth of satellite imagery to biomass maps, from the US Census to fire data. All together, there are ...