By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today ... better the map. A globe of the Earth would ...

Walk into any school classroom and you will likely see a flat, rectangular map of the world sprawled ... A great circle is "defined as any circle drawn on a globe with a center that includes ...

American architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller's 'dymaxion' world map used a polyhedral ... double-sided circle. 3D globes of Earth, such as the end result of Fuller's dymaxion map, are ...

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

A stunning map published on Reddit shows that just over half of the world's population lives in 19 Asian countries, covering a small area of the globe ... live inside a circle comprising 19 ...

Make the world map a double-sided circle, like a vinyl record ... Or to put it differently: You could deflate the 3-D Earth into two dimensions. And if you did, you could blow the accuracy ...

A new technique for unpeeling the Earth’s skin and ... making it possible to create maps that string out the continents for easy comparison, or lump together the world’s oceans into one ...

The tech giant says it has captured over 10 million miles of images for Street View, thus far, which is distance enough to circle the globe 400 times. Also, it says Google Earth has 36 million ...

Over the past 50 years, the world’s annual energy ... enough to circle the Earth 30 times. The map below shows pipeline networks across the globe. Pipelines that are shorter than 100km (62 ...