One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American ...

What does china really think of the U.S.? Spend some time in the Middle Kingdom, and you’ll hear both protestations of admiration and plenty of disparaging comments about the West. Such attitudes have ...

MELBOURNE, Australia — In July 2020, his universe shrunk to a two-bedroom apartment by a rattling train line, Anton Thomas pulled out an H pencil and opened a portal to the world. At once, his days of ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

If you were born in the last 30 years, there’s a good chance you’ve never actually had to rely on a paper map. You might have seen them at amusement parks or folded up in the glove compartment of your ...

"On classroom walls from Lagos to London", the standard map of the world depicts an "inflated Britain at the centre" and a dramatically "shrunken Africa", said The Times. But this could soon change.

The African Union has endorsed the #CorrectTheMap Campaign, a call for the United Nations and the wider global community to use a different kind of world map. The campaign currently has over 4,500 ...

You’ve probably seen it a thousand times: a map on the wall, north at the top, south down below. It feels so natural that we barely think about it.

The gas giant WASP-18b belongs to a class known as ultra-hot Jupiters — giant, searing, gaseous planets that orbit perilously close to their stars. Researchers used a new technique called ...

A new theory says personal change is like geographical exploration. Just as maps expand when new lands are discovered, our ...

One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American ...