The concepts of continents have confused people from their very beginning. Today I try to see if I can do any better at dividing the world up into manageable units.

The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

Africa gave Michael Hincks the travel bug when he was 16. Soon, he was five continents down and keen to complete the set ...

is still used by scientists to map objects in the sky. Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible ...

Only 32 countries have AI data centers, creating a global tech divide. The US and China dominate while Africa and South ...