Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.

Don't be fooled by a graph. New research shows that a scientist's policy preferences can influence their results. Look past the model and find the ground truth.

"Greenland is the world’s largest island. ... On most maps, Greenland looks enormous. That’s just a distortion caused by ...

In Slate, he explains why a Mercator projection makes Greenland look far larger than it is, and why this matters. "While the choice of map method sounds like a mathematical abstraction, it literally ...

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full ...

A new high-resolution map of distant galaxies may help scientists understand the mysterious dark matter holding the universe ...

Cartographers rely on the authority of maps to communicate locations, guide navigation at sea, and shape people’s perceptions ...

Greenland’s position in the northern latitudes means the nation’s size and shape is prone to enormous variations in how it is portrayed on global maps.

Abstract: To address the dual challenges of projection distortion and edge-side resource constraints in 360° salient object detection (SOD), this paper proposes a lightweight framework, Lightweight ...

The ongoing debate regarding the true size of the African continent is significant and timely. The African Union is supporting the call to depict Africa in its true size as just and moral. Spearheaded ...