Talk of annexation has Greenland in the news again. But due to quirks of cartography, some common maps show the territory ...

Of the current 383 Latter-day Saint temples, 211 are dedicated, seven are scheduled for dedication, 55 are under construction ...

A research team led by Prof. Liu Liangyun from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of ...

Yet a partial thaw is occurring. “We face tremendous cyber-attacks on a daily basis,” says an official in Delhi. “But we also ...

Democrat Marcy Kaptur has twice won re-election to the House of Representatives in Trump-territory. She faces an even tougher ...

Well, here's something you don't see every day: all 2.75 billion buildings of the world shown together in a single 3D map. Reading time 3 minutes The world has a lot of buildings. Now you can see them ...

Caption:"Ikea’s Björksta map (2019). 10/10 for colour, 0/10 for remembering New Zealand."Photo credit:Supplied / Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman, Harper Collins From the famous Universal Studios ...

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IN SOME PARTS of the West, children of healthy weight have become the exception. In poor countries, childhood obesity is spreading faster than ever before. The problem is not new: the percentage of ...

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

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