Advocacy groups in Africa have launched a campaign to replace the Mercator map, which distorts Africa's size by making it ...

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the ...

In the past decade, there has been significant interest in studying the expression of our genetic code down to the level of ...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century ...

African nations are calling for the world map to be redrawn to show the “greatness of the continent”. The African Union has ...

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given. But our new study in Nature, ...

The new COVID-19 strainalso known as XFG—is a "variant under monitoring" by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Several African nations have begun replacing Mercator maps in schools with alternatives. The current campaign is "actively ...

One of the most respected American cyclists of his era, George Hincapie, is launching a new team with the goal of bringing ...

The U.S. military said the F-35 fleet supports the combined combat power of the U.S. and its allies and partners in the ...