Nov 29, 2022 · We're long overdue for an accurate world map. Get the real story behind different map projections and see which one is the most accurate map of the world.

Dec 28, 2020 · Even when they're marked on a globe, the real North and South Poles are not fixed points, because the Earth — being an ellipsoid rather than a perfect sphere — wobbles ever so …

Jul 7, 2021 · It wasn’t a map in the standard format, but an eight-volume book that claimed to describe the entire known world according to mathematical principles, with longitudinal and latitudinal …

Feb 10, 2023 · But physicists strive to describe the real world, where one doesn’t encounter an infinite number of anything, let alone universes. “At the end of the day, my physics instincts pull me away …

Nov 30, 2022 · And while there’s no evidence that the lost city of Atlantis as described by Plato actually existed, says Feder, people who get hooked by that story can sometimes be drawn into real …

Nov 8, 2018 · With this map, it’s as if some medieval mapmaker flew to the heavens and sketched what he saw — though in reality, he could never have traveled higher than a church tower.

Nov 11, 2022 · Whether you count the start of the Nile as coming from the Semliki or the sources of the Kagera, either would put the Nile as the longest river in the world at 4,100 miles, Ondaatje says—just …

Nov 10, 2020 · Those digs did confirm Eridu as a real and truly ancient metropolis. At around 7,400 years old, Eridu is among humanity’s oldest cities, but nowhere near the oldest.

Oct 19, 2023 · Famous scientists of the world: From Albert Einstein, to Ada Lovelace, learn how these past and present scientists changed the world as we know it through their contributions and discoveries.

Using this data, researchers mapped the distribution and density of the world's greenery. The animated version shows how much the plant cover changes week to week.