The African Union is officially fed up with the 16 th -century representation of its continent that the world has accepted as the norm. The AU, which comprises 55 African nations, has set off on a ...

Maps are a form of storytelling, as well as an information source. Even the lines, colours, symbols and size of regions ...

It's crazy to think people once believed the earth was flat. One step too far and you'd be sent tumbling into the depths of ...

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

Politicians preached it, universities packaged it, and teenagers took up Python and JavaScript. Now, amid an AI boom, ...

That flat drawing inflates the size of countries closer to the North or South Pole. It exaggerates the area of North America and Eurasia while under-representing the size of much of South America and ...

The 55-nation alliance wants the world to adopt a new map that shows the relative size of the continents more accurately.

Predicting local weather extremes remains one of the greatest hurdles in meteorology, which requires high-resolution, reliable humidity data. A new ...

Selecting the right material from countless possibilities remains a central hurdle in materials discovery. Theory-driven ...

Game Rant speaks with the Predecessor team about its new game-changing World Shift feature, its next playable character, and more.