The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

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

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.

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

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 ...