Like Africa, South America isn’t drawn to scale. Brazil, the world’s fifth largest country, is almost the size of Europe and the United States. It appears smaller than Alaska, but is actually 5 times ...
While it seems like the present-day map has remained unchanged for a long time, quite a few countries actually date back less than a few short decades. From the fall of the Soviet Union to ...
In the 1970s, scientists from several countries proposed to reconstruct, one by one, all the neurons in the brain as they appear under an electron microscope. They started with a small worm.
Three of the countries that picked a female leader in 2024 – North Macedonia, Namibia and Mexico – did so for the first time in their nation’s history. In the post-World War II period ...