Researchers have uncovered the origins and genetic diversity of the Fulani, one of Africa's largest pastoral populations. The study reveals a complex genetic ancestry with influences from both North ...

Whether through agricultural practices, deforestation, or urbanization, how modern humans use land has had an unprecedented ...

In Europe alone, approximately 2 million people live with chronic inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), and their incidence has ...

This winter term, Mandumbwa, 28, is in Ashland, serving as Southern Oregon University’s visiting artist and scholar in ...

New research indicates that hominins migrated into Eurasia approximately 200,000 years earlier than previously believed, ...

We sit down for a coffee with veteran Sudanese-British broadcaster Zeinab Badawi, who discusses the value of history and the ...

The team headed to Harvard University’s Peabody Museum in Cambridge, where they were granted permission to collect the yeast ...

The centuries-old tradition of wassailing is making a comeback in rural England, with rituals and revelry meant to chase away evil spirits and the winter blues.

Were you told that gold mining in southern Africa started after 1852 ? Or that the export of iron, steel, copper and gold began in the late 19th cent ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

For decades, the leading theory for the ubiquity of Indo–European languages was that early farmers, living in a region known ...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Mapungubwe National Park is a treasure trove of history and natural beauty. The park is located at the confluence of the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers, where South Africa ...