Geography of Life (3): 'We Who Ride the Spaceship Earth'

From the perspective of celestial bodies like the 'Sun, Moon, and Stars' in the previous chapters, our approach now deepens ...
Harvard Gazette

Correcting the world map

But by looking at the Mercator Projection, one of the most widely used map projections, one wouldn’t know it. Created by ...
SpaceNews

The Earth is smaller than assumed – New measurements show a difference of serveral millimeters

Although the discrepancy is not large, it is significant: Geodesists from the University of Bonn have remeasured the size of the Earth in a long lasting international cooperation project. The blue ...

Can science prove the Earth is round? Every major test points to the same conclusion

Earth's shape can be tested in surprisingly simple ways without relying on space photographs. The strongest part of the ...