Tulane University researchers, collaborating with an international team of scientists, have discovered why some parts of ...

Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created ...

The University of the Witwatersrand has launched two initiatives that place Africa at the centre of global earth-science innovation.

Researchers uncovered a 2.75–2.44 million-year-old site in Kenya showing that early humans maintained stone tool traditions for nearly 300,000 years despite extreme climate swings. The tools, ...

In these uncertain, volatile, and unprecedented times, the role of science is more important than ever. Scientific advances that benefit humanity and ensure planetary sustainability for current and ...

Africa’s influence spans from ancient trade and innovation to modern culture and technology, proving it has shaped humanity’s ...

Participants reflected on how the organization’s work has evolved to meet the challenges of today’s world, calling for a “Diplomacy of truth”, and renewed commitment to youth and stronger investment ...

For decades, Paranthropus robustus has intrigued scientists as a powerful, big-jawed cousin of early humans. Now, thanks to ancient protein analysis, researchers have cracked open new secrets hidden ...

The Trump administration has set an abysmally low limit on refugees entering the country. And those who do will almost ...

Without the scholars of the Islamic Golden Age, who translated Ancient Greek, it is likely that ancient knowledge would now ...

Egyptian paleontologists have unearthed Wadisuchus kassabi, an 80-million-year-old fossil revealing Africa as the birthplace ...