A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to adding battery percentage to location sharing. Rather than settle ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Buckle your seatbelt everyone – science ...

There is a growing conspiracy about the map of Australia and it has nothing do with the fact it looks like Scooby Doo. According to a bizarre online movement, the map of Australia is not an accurate ...

For strategic and resource reasons, Greenland looms large in the imagination of President Donald Trump. But geographically, the island doesn't loom quite as large as you might think. Centuries of ...

No 3D glasses necessary for the cool, new globe view. For those who enjoy a good sweep of the Earth with Google Maps every now and again, something about our planet’s surface will look very different ...

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