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Maps are deceiving. You see, the surface of a sphere cannot be represented as a plane without some form of distortion. Since the 1500s, scientists have been developing algorithms that would help ...

Cat visual cortex contains a topographic map of visual space, plus superimposed, spatially periodic maps of ocular dominance, spatial frequency and orientation. It is hypothesized that the layout of ...

Geometric transformations are fundamental operations that alter the position, size, or shape of a geometric figure. When we talk about a transformation mapping a shape onto itself, we mean that after ...

In school, I was, and still am, excellent in geography and history, but very poor in Arabic grammar and mathematics, and average in the other subjects. The world map has been my passion ever since I ...

The roundest country (left, Sierra Leone) and the squarest country (right, Egypt), with flags overlaid. Some countries are long and thin, others compact and nearly symmetrical. Some follow natural ...

Undocumented orphaned wells pose hazards to both the environment and the climate. Scientists are building modern tools to help locate, assess, and pave the way for ultimately plugging these forgotten ...

Scattered across the United States are remnants from almost 170 years of commercial drilling: hundreds of thousands of forgotten oil and gas wells. These undocumented orphaned wells (UOWs) are not ...

The sun put on quite the spooktacular show on Halloween, firing off an X2.0 solar flare. A giant white flare, like an X bursts from the center of a fiery surface, blazed with reds and oranges in a ...