If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A pair of “Flat Earth” believers from Italy wanted to prove that our planet is ...

A team of three mapmakers, led by J Richard Gott from Princeton University, have come up with a new kind of map that claims to be the most accurate, yet flat, depiction of the world yet.

Flat, two-dimensional maps can look different because the world is actually curved. This means map-makers need to make compromises when drawing maps. These different map representations are called ...