A map of biodiversity showing the organisation of terrestrial life on Earth has been updated after more than a century. The original map, drawn up by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in ...

is a series of screenshots artist Clement Valla took from Google Earth. These uncanny landscapes ... which uses a technology called texture mapping. Like patterned wrapping paper covering a plain ...

Faithfully representing the world on a flat surface has always been a struggle. US inventor Buckminster Fuller tackled the problem by projecting Earth’s surface onto a 20-sided polyhedron, then ...