When a child opens a world atlas, they deserve the truth—not illusion. For centuries, however, geography lessons have been ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The Mercator world map, long a fixture in classrooms globally, makes the European Union appear almost as large as Africa. In reality, Africa is more than seven times bigger. It is a distortion that ...

The Real Size of Africa. For reasons that would take too long to go into here, maps and globes often distort the size of some regions and make others seem smaller than they really ...

Back in early 2020, Eddie Kasambala was your classic wide-eyed first-year at the University of Pretoria, plotting dorm ...

Scientists announced the Biodiversity Cell Atlas project to map every cell type across all eukaryotic life on Earth.

Deputy Minister Zuko Godlimpi introduces the Butterfly Strategy, aimed at diversifying South Africa's exports and enhancing ...

Muscat felt like a harbour the night Sinbad the Omani Sailor opened. The hall lifted with strings and voices as an old voyage met a new century.

Stretching from western Anatolia to southeastern Europe, this previously unknown land bridge provides a whole new migration ...

Tabarca is Spain’s smallest permanently inhabited island, popular with day-trippers from nearby Alicante. But when the ...

On September 12, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States announced a joint road map for ending Sudan’s devastating two-and-a-half-year civil war. The announcement, on its ...

Government and the private sector could work together much more effectively to improve healthcare services in South Africa, but the potential of such a partnership remains largely untapped, delegates ...