The open-world of Minecraft can take years to successfully cross, and a new real-life accomplishment by traveller Karl Bushby ...

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...

A simple question about world maps becomes the centerpiece of a deeper examination into one of the internet's most controversial claims. By comparing competing map models with real-world navigation, ...

Google loves itself a cartography app. So much so that it has two of them: Google Maps and Google Earth. Besides having overlapping functionality related to global satellite imagery with geographic ...

While the survival world in Minecraft is fun, the joy is multifold when you’re sharing the adventure with others. That’s where Minecraft multiplayer servers come into play. You can always make your ...

Did you feel that? The Earth moved. Or rather, our perception of the Earth shifted. Still, don't retire that "Everything is Bigger in Texas" bumper sticker just yet. More on that in a bit. On Sept. 4, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visual comparison of new UN world map projection Equal Earth and how Greenland's size changes compared to mercator projection. On ...

This interactive map compares the Mercator projection versus the Equal Earth projection. Use the slide bar to compare the 2 maps. Image via EqualEarthMap.app. Science news, night sky events and ...

Nearly every country represented in the United Nations General Assembly recently voted in favor of promoting world maps that more accurately show the size of various continents. But the UN resolution ...

The United Nations voted to adopt the Equal Earth projection, which more accurately represents the relative sizes of countries and continents. The commonly used Mercator projection makes regions near ...

A view of the world that has prevailed for around 450 years has been challenged. On 4 September, the United Nations General Assembly voted to phase out use of the Mercator map, a sixteenth-century ...