The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress It was a curious little book. When a few copies began resurfacing, in ...

Japan's announced "purchase" of the Diaoyu Islands is an attempt to tamper territorial history, a German sinologist said Tuesday. Dr. Ingo Nentwig, a sinologist and ethnologist, wrote in an ...

The TerraSAR-X launched back in 2007, and is able to map the Earth's surface to an accuracy of about 10 meters, which is impressive enough. But today, the same German team launched the TanDEM-X ...