A growing campaign backed by the African Union is urging schools and organizations to replace the Mercator projection with a ...

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

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

On the Mercator projection, one of the world’s most popular maps, Greenland and Africa appear to be about the same size. But ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

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

The African Union has backed mounting calls to discontinue the Mercator map, which inaccurately shrinks Africa’s true ...

Africa's landmass is so big that Russia, China, India and the United States could fit in it. But that's not the impression you get when you look at the world map that's been in use for more than 450 ...

A team of researchers has unveiled a powerful imaging technique that captures a full-dimensional portrait of elusive trap states—defects that hinder the performance of perovskite solar cells. By ...

Researchers from the University of Georgia's Skidaway Institute of Oceanography are using LiDAR technology to create detailed ...

In 1963, Texas transportation crews drilling near I-35 in Georgetown punched through rock and uncovered a massive underground cave system hidden for thousands of years. Now, more than 60 years later, ...