NASA's newest astrophysics space telescope launched in March on a mission to create an all-sky map of the universe. Now ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

When enlarged into a world map, though, Mercator becomes problematic, Braun said. The map’s mistakes were not likely to be a conspiracy against Africa or the Global South, but its continued use ...

The advances made in both Human Computer Interfaces (HCIs) and in Mixed Reality (MR) systems during the past decade have opened the gates to countless new applications in fields ranging from applied ...

For centuries, the Mercator map – one of the most widely used world maps – has shrunk the African continent, distorting its scale and minimising its global significance. Africa covers 30,37-million ...

Commentary Comment: Can we blame Mercator for Trump’s Greenland obsession? To simplify his map, the cartographer drew Greenland as immense, when it’s smaller than Algeria. Wednesday, April 2 ...

Many of the maps we use today are based on a solution created by Gerardus Mercator, a Flemish geographer. In 1569 he drew a world map, what's become known as the Mercator projection.

It’s massive.’ That should be part of the United States.” Yet many commentators have pointed out what any true map-lover knows: Greenland is not actually as big as it appears on most maps.

The Mercator projection, originally designed by a 16th century cartographer, stretches the northern and southern latitudes in order to plot the round earth on a flat surface.

The alleged map of Zheng He's travels. | Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain It seems everyone wants to ruin Christopher Columbus’s biggest claim to fame. Back in the aughts, a Chinese map ...