American mapmaking’s most prestigious honor is the “Best of Show” award at the annual competition of the Cartography and Geographic Information Society. The five most recent winners were all maps ...

In today's digital era, map apps have revolutionized how we navigate our surroundings. Gone are the days of relying on printed directions or designated navigators; now, our smartphones serve as our ...

However, by other measures, the new map is better for Republicans. First, the “tipping-point” congressional seat — i.e., the majority-making 218th bluest and 218th reddest seat in the House — is ...

This Columbus day, celebrate the person who really discovered America -- aka, pretty much everyone except Christopher Columbus. By now, it's well known that Indigenous people populated America well ...

Instagram's new feature that shows users' current locations is prompting some users to worry if their location will suddenly be shared on the platform. Meta announced the rollout of several new ...

The map, created with Sloan Digital Sky Survey data, is the first to display the span of 200,000 galaxies with pinpoint accuracy. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat ...

In the modern era, the European discovery of North American became a proxy for conflicts between American Protestants and Catholics, as well as northern Europeans who claimed Vikings like Leif ...

Earth is a sphere, so how can it be accurately portrayed on a 2D map? Simply flatten Earth into two pancakes, one depicting the Northern Hemisphere and the other the Southern, with the equator running ...

Have you ever tried smashing a ball into a flat rectangle? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Walk into any school classroom and you ...

It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in the 18th century, nobody knew what to make of it. One hundred and three pages long and written in Latin, it announced itself on ...