How ancient African terracing systems, validated by the Green Belt Movement, prefigure the 'innovative' principles of space ...

A Wits-led study published in the prestigious journal Nature has added whole-genome data from more than 1,000 people across nine African countries to global science, significantly expanding ...

It’s easy to assume P. goliah and other giant kangaroos lost their ability to hop as a result of all that bulk. After all, ...

It was a Cro Magnon opus. Europe might not be the birthplace of human symbolic culture as previously thought. International ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to ...

Scientists discovered naturally mummified cheetahs in Saudi desert caves. DNA analysis reveals links to modern populations, ...

These terracotta rings are saving the world’s largest mangrove forest in India against rising tides and violent cyclones.

The newest addition to the Virginia Military Institute’s basketball staff doesn’t draw a salary, doesn’t wear a whistle and ...

During the second half of January, there will be lots of classic and new performing arts shows and museum exhibitions ...

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

New research suggests the mysterious Roman-era “Beachy Head Woman” was likely from Britain, not the Mediterranean or sub-Saharan Africa. Advances in DNA sequencing are helping researchers resolve a ...

An international team of scientists has uncovered fossil evidence of a tiny ecosystem in the Cederberg mountains, revealing ...