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It's a problem that has plagued cartographers for centuries: How do you accurately represent a round world on a flat map? The most common world map used today, designed almost 450 years ago, is highly ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. Like all planets, Earth isn't flat.

In a resolution that begins “Whereas, the Earth is round . . . ,” cartographers are urging book and map publishers, the news media and government agencies to stop using rectangular maps to depict the ...

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Last week, researchers released the first-ever geological map of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon. Here’s the map again, flattened into a 2D, rectangular map ...

A new world map projection created by a Japanese designer is unlike any that have come before it, and for his efforts, he has won a prestigious international design prize. Despite its attempt to ...

Rakshit Sharma For most people, the first encounter with the wider world does not come through travel, diplomacy or even news ...