Map-making pulls together a lot of skills: observation, spatial reasoning, drawing, and writing. Help your child strengthen their sense of place by making a map of your street or neighborhood. Talk a ...

Following last week’s quiet release of Find Hub for Wear OS, Google is rolling out support for map layers on Android. This quality-of-life improvement adds a tiny FAB (floating action button) just ...

I usually work on general relativity and cosmology. I have always loved geometrical things. As a kid I was fascinated by map projections. When I was 14, I made a painted globe of Mars based on a flat ...

You’re going to need some double-sided tape. By Joshua Sokol Most of the world maps you’ve seen in your life are past their prime. The Mercator was devised by a Flemish cartographer in 1569. The ...

This 1491 map is the best surviving map of the world as Christopher Columbus knew it as he made his first voyage across the Atlantic. In fact, Columbus likely used a copy of it in planning his journey ...