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"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 ...

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 ...

President Trump is again floating the idea of annexing Greenland, the semiautonomous Arctic island that is a territory of Denmark. Greenland's location between North America and Russia gives it ...

Maps are deceiving. You see, the surface of a sphere cannot be represented as a plane without some form of distortion. Since the 1500s, scientists have been developing algorithms that would help ...

Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, is clapping back at Democrats as “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to ABC on Tuesday night. The Disney-owned network announced Monday that ...