Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...

An incredibly detailed explanation of why this international nightmare came to be.

In June, Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, speaking from the International Space Station, noted that India looked "much larger" from space than on standard maps. This very phenomenon, where tropical ...

Bill argues that because clocks start at 12 and maps start at 0°, the entire coordinate system is wrong. Dan explains that ...