The Mercator projection, which is the most well-known map across the world, has a score of 8.396. Compared to the new map, which has a score of just 0.881, it is clear the new design is far less ...

THIS revolutionary world map may look unfamiliar – but it has been hailed the most accurate 2D depiction of our globe ever made. The clever ‘origami’-style technique solves a cent… ...

This discrepancy between the map size of a country and the real size of a country happens because we try to project our world which is shaped like a sphere (which is 3D, you know) onto a 2D map.

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before.

And now we’re closer to it, thanks to a map created by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture that rates food sustainability for different countries around the world.

The map created with data from a six-year-long pioneering survey of the cosmos features over a billion bright specks that represent galaxies, each containing billions of stars, according to the ...