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  2. Finally, an Accurate World Map That Doesn't Lie

    www.discovermagazine.com/environment/finally-a-world-map-that-doesnt-lie

    Learn how the AuthaGraph, a 2016 design award winner, creates an accurate world map by folding the globe into a pyramid and flattening it. Compare it with other map projections, such as Mercator, and see how it depicts the continents and oceans.

  3. The Mystery of Extraordinarily Accurate Medieval Maps

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    Many modern maps solve this problem by using so-called Mercator projections, which turn the lines of latitude parallel to the equator and the lines of longitude that converge at the Earth’s poles into a tidy grid of perpendicular lines on a flat plane.

  4. The Next Pangea: What Earth’s Future Supercontinent Will Look...

    www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-next-pangea-what-earths-future-super...

    Learn about the history and science of supercontinents, and explore different hypotheses for the shape of the world to come. Discover how plate tectonics, continental drift and oceanic circulation will shape the next Pangea and its environmental impacts.

  5. 6 of the World’s Oldest Maps - Discover Magazine

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    Learn about the ancient and diverse ways our ancestors mapped the world, from Babylonian clay tablets to Roman road maps. Explore the history and significance of these six examples of early cartography, from 600 B.C. to 150 A.D.

  6. How Monarchs Migrate Without a Map - Discover Magazine

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    Even more impressively, the monarchs embark on this annual migration without a GPS to guide them — or even an old-fashioned map. And they can’t ask their parents for the best route; because of their short lifespans, only about one out of every five generations of monarchs migrate.

  7. Reconsidering the Origins of Water Found on the Moon

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    Then in 2018, data from the NASA-manufactured Moon Mineralogy Mapper (an instrument on board India's Chandrayaan-1) revealed a detailed map of water on the body, which is estimated to hold 240,000 Olympic swimming pools of the stuff.

  8. What Is Mental Imagery? Researchers Explain The Pictures In Your...

    www.discovermagazine.com/mind/what-is-mental-imagery-researchers-explain-the...

    Mental imagery is the ability to visualize things and scenarios in your mind, without actual physical input. For example, when you think about your best friends, you may automatically picture their faces in your head without actually seeing them in front of you.

  9. 518 Million Years Ago, the Biggest, Baddest Predators Were…...

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    Read More: The "First Predators" Ruled a World Full of Bacteria Past Predators Face Off: The Arthropods and Arrow Worms It was previously thought that primitive arthropods — animals from the 529-million-to-521-million-year-old Arthropoda phylum — were the dominant predators of Early Cambrian oceans.

  10. Which Sexual Fantasies are the Most (and Least) Popular? Science...

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    Aim: The main goal of this study was to determine which SF are rare, unusual, common, or typical from a statistical point of view among a relatively large sample of adults recruited from the general population. A secondary goal was to provide a statistical comparison of the nature and intensity of sexual fantasies for men and women. This study also aims at demonstrating with both quantitative ...

  11. No Snoots Here: Dogs and Wolves Can Find Hidden Food Without...

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    For each animal, the team tested whether they could find four, six or eight caches of food either after seeing a human hide it, or without seeing it hidden. Results showed that both wolves and dogs found the first five food caches faster and with less time searching if they observed the food being hidden.

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