The Mercator projection, a cylindrical map introduced by Geradus Mercator in 1569, distorts the true size of countries on ...

President Museveni has called on Emirates Airlines to use their global platform to promote Uganda's diverse and unmatched tourist attractions to the world.

The president-elect said he covets Greenland for its size. He could be misinterpreting it based on well-known mapping distortion.

and Antarctica get a bulge and appear far larger than they actually are relative to landmasses on or near the equator – such as Brazil, India, Congo (and much of Africa), which are compacted.

MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary: the plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light years.

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While the geographical North Pole stays fixed in place (at the very summit of the Earth's rotational axis), the WMM pinpoints ...

For example, Greenland looks almost the same size as Africa on that map ... in size compared to areas near the equator. Mercator projection stretches the map vertically to maintain straight ...

If we're being frank, which is how we roll in the Rocket Report, some of Orbex's recent activity does not inspire confidence.