While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Google Maps will change the name of Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America when the US government officially makes the change ...

Most gold production and reserves in west Africa are found within the west African craton. This is one of the world’s oldest ...

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water bound to the east by Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the west by Texas ... are based on the Geographic Names ...

"For geographic features in the U.S., this is when Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is updated," the company said. "When that happens, we will update Google Maps in the U.S. quickly to ...

Google has said it will restore the name Mount McKinley to North America's highest peak and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on its Maps app, complying with executive orders by ...

The U.S. Board on Geographic Names will ... settlers and prospectors headed west following the American Civil War, it became apparent the federal government needed some kind of consistency for ...

Avian influenza (AI) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting poultry and wild water birds, posing significant global challenges due to its high mortality rates and economic impacts. Highly ...

Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

Map lines are ... at all on its maps. Many Arab countries don’t recognize Israel and instead call it Palestine. And in many official releases, Israel calls the occupied West Bank by its biblical ...

Scientists released an update to a model that maps the ever-moving pole and has ... distinct from the geographic North Pole, is the point where Earth’s magnetic field lines converge.

A new map of Africa that uses strontium could help descendants of the transatlantic slave trade to finally trace their roots ...