Education has changed a lot since the 1980s, with digital tools becoming ever more prominent. However, this old-school item ...

Global ocean temperatures are entering “uncharted territory,” climate scientists say Sea surface temperatures in late June ...

The classic square Mercator map of the world as seen in Google Maps. Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many ...

For centuries, the Mercator map has shown the African continent to be smaller than it is. Now the African Union is calling for an end to this distortion, for Equal Earth and a new picture of global ...

African leaders have formally endorsed a landmark initiative aimed at correcting long-standing cartographic distortions that have misrepresented the size and significance of the African continent, ...

aHubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA bEmory Global Diabetes Research Center, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University ...

I used to collect cool and weird globes — round projections of the Earth, often acting as snapshots of time, showing nations, cities and the like as they were the day the globe was created. We're ...

There is an episode in The West Wing television series in which White House press spokesperson CJ Craig meets a delegation of cartographers, who explain that the standard world map — a Mercator ...

Maps distort reality because the Earth is a three-dimensional sphere, and any attempt to represent it on a flat surface requires compromise. It's like trying to make a rectangle out of an orange peel.

The Mercator projection was created in 1569 by Gerardus Mercator primarily as a navigational tool for sailors. It allows for straight-line plotting of courses, which is crucial for maritime navigation ...

In college basketball, about the only thing certain is uncertainty. The final NCAA men's tournament bracket still won’t be announced for over a month, and it will in all likelihood look quite ...

A global experiment has shown that the kind of world map people see systematically alters how large countries feel, placing Greenland among the most exaggerated places on Earth. That distorted sense ...