How the world map changed over centuries, why Mercator makes Greenland look huge, why Asia is the largest continent, how map projections work and the truth behind common world map myths.

When I heard the word '3D' in PowerPoint, the first thing that came to mind was a three-dimensional bar chart.Making a ...

We analyzed whether nearly 4,000 migrant deaths occurred within sight of the US government’s  surveillance towers. Here’s our methodology.

We take it as truth that not only does X mark the spot, it shows us the size of the spot, what the spot's name is and how the ...

Maps. Where would we be without them? And how would we even know? They can anchor us in a place or help us get somewhere else ...

Does placing images evenly throughout a long article make it easier to read?When inserting two images into a 4,000-character ...

History teaches us that maps and the names, territories and landmarks they include or exclude always have political ...

We’ve told stories told in panels for centuries: on cloth, on paper, on rock. Check out a few prime examples, from 10th-century hero stones to modern-day political cartoons.

Equal Earth projection, adopted by the UN last week, provides an alternative to 16th-century Mercator display ...

Pavel Kuzmenko spoke about the native C++ plugin texLab for Unreal Engine, detailing the tool's core design, its JSON-based ...