At a time when knowledge of the world was fragmented and based on travelers’ and merchants’ accounts, one man set out to ...

La Niña has made a long-awaited return, cooling the Pacific and stirring up global weather patterns. This natural climate ...

The Earth is round, so it does not have a fixed center like a flat surface. However, some countries are closest to important ...

There are a significant number of words, phrases and acronyms that appear when talking about race and ethnicity which often change depending on the context of the conversation. Language is ...

This artist’s visualization of WASP-127b, a giant gas planet located about 520 light-years from Earth, shows its newly discovered supersonic jet winds that move around the planet’s equator. With a ...

With modern GPS, we often don’t think too hard about how to navigate, but GPS does not work very well on the open sea. That is why modern ships are equipped with technology such as radar and a ...

Kimura, director of the International Latitude Observatory ... when analysed in the form x cos X -f y sin X where X is the longitude, but that these were greatly reduced when a common term ...

with perpendicular lines of longitude and latitude. The Mercator projection also inflates the size of lands the further they are from the equator. Landmasses such as Greenland, Canada, Russia ...

Regional ATOVS Retransmission Services ( RARS) are operational arrangements for the real-time acquisition of polar-orbiting satellite data over a wide region containing a network of direct readout ...