and the researchers hope it will become the accepted world map. “Our map is actually more like the globe than other flat maps,” said J. Richard Gott, emeritus professor of astrophysics at ...

A "radically different" flat map of ... the better the map, with a score of 0 being perfect. The well-known Mercator projection, which created a square map of the world by stretching the polar ...

Whenever you glance at a flat world map, you should take what you see with a grain of salt. One in particular, known as the Mercator projection, distorts the actual sizes of landmasses like Alaska and ...