To get around this distortion, other map-makers have come up with different compromises. A projection named after the geographer Arthur Robinson curves the longitudes but keeps the latitudes straight ...

At some point in his life, Donald Trump looked at a world map and saw something he wants – something that, as president of the US, he now says he will take “one way or the other.” It’s Greenland, an ...

This contract follows a separate supply agreement between ABB and L3Harris, under which ABB has provided six interferometers for the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS) for the US low earth polar ...

Frances H. Arnold has spent her career creating enzymes that can accomplish chemistry that nature never intended. C&EN spoke with the busy Nobel laureate and Priestley Medalist about her days as a ...

Communist China, currently in the gunsights of US President Donald Trump and his tariffs, remains committed to annexing the island democracy of Taiwan, separated from the mainland by just over 100 ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te said Thursday that the island's defense budget will exceed 3% of its economic output as it overhauls its military in the face of the rising ...

In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones landed near Cairo after becoming the first people to circle the globe by balloon. In 2005, a 17-year-old boy at the Red Lake Indian Reservation in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te said he will increase the island’s military spending from 2.5% to over 3 ...

US President Donald Trump is opposed to any change to Taiwan’s “status quo” by force or extortion and would maintain that policy, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Hugh Hewitt Show host on ...

The Globe and Mail talked to Wang Di ... Tibet, or Xizang, and Taiwan. Let me tell you, the Chinese people attach great importance to our sovereignty, just like the Canadian people.

The passage is "the most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe," Alfred Lansing wrote in his 1959 book "Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage to the Antarctic."At around 600 miles (965 kilometers ...

13 countries are lying on the equator, with 3 continents, and 3 major waterbodies included.