You’ve (probably) never seen the world unless you’ve served a stint on the International Space Station. Only a few hundred people out of billions of folks alive today have ever seen an undistorted, ...

Adesign fromartistHajime Narukawarecently won the Good Design Award for its accuracy. There have been many beautiful maps of the worldand most are pretty inaccurate. Artist Hajime Narukawa recently ...

Four years and $50 million after enacting the Statewide Land Information System in Wisconsin, the state Legislature asked to see some tangible benefits from the enterprise. In response, the State Land ...

Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

Creating an accurate map of Earth is quite a difficult task, but in 1999 a Japanese architect claimed to achieve what was thought to be impossible. The Japanese architect is named Hajime Narukawa, and ...

A team of researchers has released the most detailed and most accurate map of the Antarctican terrain ever created using high-resolution satellite images. Called the "Reference Elevation Model of ...

For all our technological prowess, the human race doesn't really have much of a grasp on how the brain works. We barely have an accurate map of the thing. But this latest development may have just ...

Of all the questions facing astronomers today, some of the biggest unknowns are about the stuff that makes up most of the universe. We know that the ordinary matter we see all around us makes up just ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

The Federal Communications Commission has finally published new broadband maps after a protracted development process. The "pre-production draft" release, as the FCC describes it, promises much more ...