Every map of the world that you have ever seen is inaccurate. Well, of course, you might think. How could they map out the world when it's round, not flat? True. But that isn't the point. See, the ...

Because the Earth is roughly spherical, every flat map distorts our planet one way or another. The most popular version is the Mercator projection, created by Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator in ...

Picture a wall-size world map. What do you see? What you are imagining is most likely not the type of map going into Boston Public Schools Thursday. Social studies teachers in the second, seventh and ...

Around 600 classrooms in Boston are set to ditch the widely used but highly distorted traditional map of the world in favour of a more accurate depiction of the globe. Schools will use the Gall-Peters ...