A global game reveals that our idea of the size of continents is more accurate than classic maps and their distortions ...

Sometimes it helps to take look the world through an unconventional perspective when thinking about the size of things. So here's a pretty awesome map from Bank of America Merrill Lynch's ...

One of the best known and commonly used world maps, the Mercator Projection, depicts Greenland and Africa as being roughly the same size. In reality, Africa is 14 times larger. This clever animation ...

Less than a month after the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States, U.S. troops—with support from British, Canadian, French, German and Australian forces—invaded Afghanistan to fight Al ...