The Mercator map has long been considered controversial due to its exaggerated depiction of Europe, which Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator placed in the center of the map, and North America.

I and my colleagues Dave Goldberg and Bob Vanderbei (who invented the “ Purple America ” map for showing election results) have produced what we believe to be the most accurate flat map of the ...

QinetiQ North America Applies its Wind Profiling Portable Radar Technology for Accurate Single-Pass Airdrops to U.S. Military Ground Forces ...

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- The number of rigs drilling for oil and natural gas in North America rose by 12, or 0.6%, to 1,867, according to a weekly update by Baker Hughes Inc. BHI, -0.98% on ...

On March 29, 1867 – 150 years ago today – the British North America Act, 1867 became law. Alongside the Metropolitan Poor Act, 1867 and the Dog Licenses Act, 1867, the bill was granted royal ...

The maps we are currently taught in schools grossly distort the landmasses of the world. The world maps portray North America as larger than Africa (it's not) and Alaska's landmass as more than ...