Like a golden thread circling the Earth, the equator sprinkles a bit of tourist magic in 11 countries. View on euronews ...

In a recent paper, Gott began considering “envelope polyhedra,” with regular shapes glued together back-to-back, which led to the breakthrough idea for the double-sided map.. It can be displayed with ...

These two "pancakes" represent the most accurate flat map of Earth ever made, the study researchers said. Unlike other flat maps, the new circular map doesn't downsize or supersize the area of ...

Vertical migration of organisms and deep currents control the transport and characteristics of particles at the equator, according to an analysis of current and particle measurements. Particles ...

Most of us have a rough map of the world in our minds that we use any time we think about places. But these mental maps aren’t necessarily reliable. In fact, many of the maps in our heads share ...

Every parallel is stretched to the length of the equator, so on the map, there is horizontal stretching as one moves poleward. Related: Who was the first person to write about the British Isles?