For 90 years, Harry Beck’s map of the London Tube has brought order to the word’s ever-expanding Metro lines. This single idea chugged on to become a classic The London Underground is not only the ...

Changes to six lines of the London Overground mean an update to a 1931 design that went global and became a gold standard, even sparking an uproar in 2009 when the River Thames was taken off the map.

The first wiring diagram of every neuron in an adult brain and the 50 million connections between them has been produced for a fruit fly. The diagram of all 139,255 neurons in the adult fly brain is ...

Maps, you’d think, deal in fact: Point A here, point B there, and (thanks, Waze) the path that tracks the shortest distance between the two. But really, maps are the most graphic illustration I can ...