Bill argues that because clocks start at 12 and maps start at 0°, the entire coordinate system is wrong. Dan explains that latitude and longitude are reference points, not mechanical gears, and that ...

Take a look at a map today, and you might think North America is larger than Africa or Greenland is larger than Mexico and China. But that's not true in the slightest. The issue derives from trying to ...

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This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his journey ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The village of Saint-Martin-Vesubie, southeastern France, two months after heavy rains and floods left areas cut off from the world. (Photo by Valery HACHE / AFP) The Mediterranean coast, Greater ...

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 ...

Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous. Famously, at the quantum scale, particles can be ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Mathematical evidence indicates that our universe is flat, but it could be infinitely big, as well. You can figure out if an object is flat with a ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Java collection classes allow a developer to keep track of contained items in one of two ways, ...