Few technologies have climbed as fast as large language models, the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and their rivals.

China has announced plans to complete the world's first AI-driven geological map of Mars by the end of 2028, a project that ...

A pair of California friends set a Guinness World Record by assembling all 11,695 pieces of the Lego World Map in 4 hours, 59 ...

Scientists have mapped more than 1,000 previously uncharted coral reefs across northern Australia using hundreds of satellite ...

Nicolas, known as habibicode on social media, created a border-drawing game that has you painting border lines on a map from ...

Political groups use social media ‘maptivism’ to spread exaggerated regional maps to stake a claim to territory.

But while the physical geography of our world can be set in stone, the reality is that maps are not. There are choices ...

The UN is in favour of changing the traditional world map to one that shows Africa occupying rather more space than it currently does.

The UN has endorsed a new world map using the Equal Earth projection. See how the map compares and why Africa gains the most relative size.

The most widely used global map is almost 500 years old and was designed for navigation. But landmasses near the poles look larger than their actual relative sizes, and those near the equator look muc ...

Mercator maps distorted Africa for centuries. A U.N. vote asks the world to see the continent closer to its actual size. The U.S. was lone 'no' vote.

In a historic move last week, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to encourage the use of new world maps which more accurately depict continents with their true sizes. The move ...