Researchers at the Allen Institute For Brain Science have completed their four year task of mapping the brain based on all known parts of the genome.

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The Department of Agriculture has begun the huge task of re-mapping every field in Northern Ireland.

BBC: Every field in Northern Ireland to be re-mapped

Fortunately for them, assembling all that data back in Mountain View was a far less rigorous task: Google engineers use their mapping software to link the photos to their shooting locations and string them together to create the panoramic paths users walk through.

CNN: Google Maps climbs world's tallest mountains

The task force was created to help implement research, monitoring, mapping, conservation, restoration and international measures to reduce human impacts on coral reefs.

CNN: Task force announces coral reef protections