Before DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest 3D sky map yet, researchers first needed an even bigger 2D map of ...

A "radically different" flat map of the Earth has been produced by scientists who say it is more accurate than any previous 2D models that came before. The two-sided map is made up of two circles ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it actually is ...

New data from a pioneering six-year survey expands a colossal 2D map of space. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The largest ...

In a study published August 10 in Nature, scientists have charted the genetic landscape across a human prostate in high resolution and discovered how additional or missing chunks of chromosomes, known ...