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The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.
Have you ever looked at a world map and wondered why some countries seem much larger than others, even though that doesn't match the real world? Well, that’s because the map you're used to is likely ...
Aircraft carriers are floating airbases that have revolutionized naval warfare, enabling the projection of air power across ...
Planetariums were a hit with the public. Within decades, they had spread around the world – the first planetarium in the ...
Arguments of GDP over- or under-estimation fall flat in the face of statistical progress made by India to measure this sector closely. The timeliness and regularity of NSS data have improved and ...
From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...
Irina Marinov, associate professor at the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, leads a research community focused ...
The latest weather maps from WXCharts suggest that parts of the country could see the mercury rise to almost 40C on July 14 ...
Tim Marshall's 2025 edition of Prisoners of Geography refreshes his realist geopolitical doctrine with post-COVID, AI-era, ...
Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so much.
Climate change’s strain on our electrical grids like we have seen this week on the East Coast will only get worse if we don’t ...
NBA Draft tips off on Wednesday Night. Cooper Flagg is the headliner of this year’s class, but he’s not the only star of the ...