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Rhythmic pulses of molten rock are rising beneath eastern Africa, according to a new study.  The pulsing plume of hot mantle beneath Ethiopi...

Paleontologists in South Africa said they have found the oldest known burial site in the world, containing remains of a small-brained distan...

Why did humans take over the world while our closest relatives, the Neanderthals , became extinct? It's possible we were just smarter, b...

A study published in the journal Nature has proposed a new model for human evolution, asserting that modern Homo sapiens stemmed from multip...

Demonstrators at the COP27 climate summit on Novmber 15, 2022, in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. A new climate financing mechanism for Africa, by A...

Jan 13 (Reuters) - Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has slashed prices globally on its electric vehicles by as much as 20%, extending an aggressive disco...

Nigeria, country located on the western coast of Africa . Nigeria has a diverse geography, with climates ranging from arid to humid equato...

Copper manilla bracelets from a late 17th-century Royal African Company trader in the Western Approaches. Photograph: Seascape Artifact Exhi...

Fifty independent countries existed in 1920. Today, there are nearly two hundred. One of the motivating forces behind this wave of country-c...

While nations rally to reduce their carbon emissions, and try to adapt at-risk places to hotter conditions, there is an elephant in the room...

Nigerian Teenagers Are Making Slick Scifi Films With Their Smartphones Someone should really snap up the rights for a movie about The...

The course of human evolution never did run smooth. The emergence of hominins on the continent of Africa is full of twists, turns, gaps, an...

Desinova Cave, Russia Nobody knows who she was, just that she was different: a teenage girl from over 50,000 years ago of such strange uniq...

It could not have got off to a much better start for Jumia's historic stock market listing. The hoopla on the day it became the first Af...

IMAGE SOURCEGETTY IMAGES John can barely remember a time when having sex with his wife did not end with her in tears.  It was just too painf...

There is a lot of money in chocolate but the producers of the raw material see very little of it. Last year the retail industry was worth $1...

Millions are starving in South America Millions are starving in Africa Millions are starving in China Millions are starving in Asia How many...

While East TN is not as cold as the deepest parts of Canada, Alaska, or the Artic Circle, it is nonetheless colder than what I had expected ...