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

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

Church bells tolled across Rome, and tributes have been pouring in from around the world after the Vatican on Monday announced the death at age 88 of Pope Francis, who led the Catholic Church ...