But while the new map excels at addressing distortion, Dr. Kerkovits said it also introduced a new weakness. You can see only half of the planet at once, unlike the Winkel Tripel and Mercator.

A newly spotlighted artifact from ancient Mesopotamia is offering a rare window into how one of the world’s earliest ...

Did you know that the world looks different depending on where you are? Maps, as commonly seen in textbooks and online, are not universal,many regions and borders are disputed, with different ...

Below, close-ups of 2007 homicides mapped in three sections of Los Angeles County as of July. Left, San Fernando Valley. Middle, West Los Angeles and Hollywood. Right, LA County south of the 10.

A World Map With No National Borders and 1,642 Animals A self-taught artist-cartographer and outdoorsman spent three years on an obsessive labor of love with few parallels.

A new Pew survey of people in 39 countries from around the world finds that people tend to have a more favorable view of the United States than they do of China, but with wide variations across ...

Google Maps now allows you to view your favorite global landmarks from a 3D perspective. Although the three-dimensional immersive view is not entirely complete at the moment, you can now check the ...

Last week, Port Authority Executive Director Chris Ward mentioned that construction of One World Trade Center is more than half of its planned height and by the 10th anniversary of the September ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the cave floor. Credit: Pascal Crapet, Fontainebleau / courtesy of Médard Thiry for labrujulaverde.com French scientists have identified a unique engraving in the ...

The world may look different for students returning to Nebraska classrooms this month. A new state law bans public schools from using a common type of world map that distorts ...

Here are three unique views that provide some insight into why Bondi endures as one of the world’s most enviable postcodes.