DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

Ofelia Opocué’s life has been shaped by loss, she says. Twenty-three years ago, the FARC gave her family an ultimatum: leave ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

The $4 billion project was the Biden administration’s signature initiative in Africa. Early signs are that the Trump team ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...

In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Children living in poverty often suffer from anemia, a condition linked to serious health risks. A research team led by ...

Braiding is more than a hairstyle. For generations, African American hair braiding styles have held deep cultural ...

Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ...

Washington's Smithsonian is a sprawling chain of museums dedicated to both celebrating and scrutinizing the American story -- ...