The Roundest (and Most Rectangular) Countries, According to Math
Apparently, Sierra Leone is both very round and quite rectangular.
Tag: geography
A disturbingly large area of our planet is covered by greenhouses
Researchers used satellites to see how many greenhouses we have in the world.
How many countries are there really in the world?
Counting the number of countries in the world can be surprisingly complicated.
How a compass works: your trusty magnetic guide
The magnetic compass is one of the most important instruments for navigation.
The biggest tsunami ever recorded: Taller than 500 meters
Imagine the biggest wave you can imagine. Now make it bigger.
Why the tallest mountain in the world isn’t technically Mt. Everest
The Earth is not a perfect sphere, so the answer might surprise you.
We should talk about ‘deepfake geography’: fake AI-generated satellite images
Nothing is spared by the ongoing AI fraud.
Sand dunes communicate with each other
They're not very social, though.
Earth is much more rivery than we’ve suspected, satellite data reveals
Earth's rivers cover an area roughly the size of Texas, the team reports.
Watch the (2nd) biggest book in the world get digitized, all thanks to the British Library
It's not the size of the book that matters, it's how you digitize it.
The dead center of North America is serendipitously located in a small town called Center, North Dakota
This was actually very challenging to pinpoint.
Spatial genetic method can pinpoint an individual’s geographic origin
Genetic diversity is what keeps species evolving, helps them tackle diseases and is a prime pre-requisite for natural selection. Understanding ...
Subglacial lake surface reached after drilling through 4km of Antarctic ice – ‘alien life’ expected
It took 30 years, an enormous amount of effort and patience, and drilling through 3,768 meters of thick ice for ...
2009 geographic study predicted Bin Laden’s whereabouts
Prediction made by UCLA geographers Thomas Gillespie, John Agnew, and a whole class of undergrads regarding where Osama Bin Laden ...
Saturn’s moon full of geysers
There are many things we have yet to find out about Saturn, but the Cassini probe has definitely shed some ...
Cano Cristales – the world’s most colourful river
Caño Cristales is a river located in Northern Columbia, with a length of almost 100 km and a width of ...
