Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it actually is ...

There are about a dozen published variations of equidistant conic map projections. They are identical when using the same actual standard parallels, but the parallels are chosen differently. Greater ...

For more than 20 years, the Silverpit Crater deep under the North Sea has been the center of a heated scientific controversy. Some geologists were adamant that an asteroid produced the nearly-perfect ...

Intrepid’s patented technology enables a “closed loop” of contemporaneous feedback/print run optimization during builds. Closed-loop operation results in vastly improved print quality: higher ...

In 1569, Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator synthesized existing ideas in navigation and cartography to create a new type of world map. It has stood the test of time: Billions of people would ...

Let C be a nonempty closed convex proper subset of a real uniformly convex and uniformly smooth Banach space E, let S : C → C be a relatively nonexpansive mapping, and let T : C → E be an ...