Debe Loughlin uses science and her imagination to transform seaweed into art.Loughlin, a self-described island girl, uses a photographic printing process called cyanotype to create maps of islands ...

Old maps are rife with phantom islands. Sometimes these nonexistent landmasses come about because of mistakes made by sailors or cartographers; sometimes they can be traced back to folklore or legends ...

Thomas Jefferys, “Chart of the Atlantic Ocean, with the British, French, & Spanish settlements in North America, and the West Indies” (London, 1768) (courtesy Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the ...

The year is 1973, and a ragtag group of U.S. military officials, scientists, and monster hunters set off on a special mission to map a newly discovered island with a very large secret. That’s the plot ...

Jourdan Silva is a writer and editor based in Houston, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Corporate Communications Studies back in 2018. Since then, she has ...

Debe Loughlin uses science and her imagination to transform seaweed into art.Loughlin, a self-described island girl, uses a photographic printing process called cyanotype to create maps of islands ...