Turns out the map on your classroom wall has been lying harder than a freshman explaining why his essay smells like tequila.

Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

It's crazy to think people once believed the earth was flat. One step too far and you'd be sent tumbling into the depths of ...

Mercator projection is not the first time a European map distorted or misrepresented a region, says one expert. Another ...

The African Union has endorsed the ‘Correct the Map’ campaign to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection, long ...

Organizers behind the Correct The Map campaign say the Mercator map's shrinking of Africa minimizes the continent's global influence — and is just plain inaccurate.

The African Union's recent support for alternatives to the Mercator projection challenges historical cartographic distortions ...

How is the visit of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi to India relevant to the UPSC exam? What is the significance of topics ...

The 55 countries endorsed a campaign to replace the Mercator map with alternatives that supporters say more accurately ...

While working at NASA in 2003, Dr. Robert Ambrose, director of the Robotics and Automation Design Lab (RAD Lab), designed a ...

Russian-backed separatists broke away from the Ukrainian government to proclaim the regions of Donetsk and Luhansk independent “people’s republics” and, as a result, Moscow captured more than a third ...