A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Some social media users are saying that Alexander Gleason’s 19th Century “New Standard Map of the World” is proof that the earth is flat and that Antarctica is not a continent but an ice ring that ...

<br>In 150 AD, the Greek scholar Claudius Ptolemy wrote a textbook entitled the <i>Geography, </i>which earned him the title ‘The Father of Geography’. Drawing on nearly a thousand years of classical ...

The same brain areas that help us map physical space help us chart social connections, and the best relationship cartographers have most clout ...