According to AFP, via Phys.org, the new status report showed that 135,690 African forest elephants were alive in 2024. In ...

The African wild dog is one of Africa’s most endangered predators. African wild dogs are highly elusive, avoiding human contact and utilising vast, remote territories to remain out of sight. Current ...

Genome-wide DNA technology promises greater insights into how ancient cultures survived and thrived. In an interdisciplinary study published on February 23, 2022, in the journal Nature (“Ancient DNA ...

In 2006, US scientists published a landmark study that linked lower levels of a gene known as PCSK9 to lower rates of heart disease. Researchers then sought to test the thesis by identifying subjects ...

When scientists pulled genetic material from a pair of naturally preserved bodies in the central Sahara, they expected to ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

A new analysis of human remains that were buried in African archaeological sites has produced the earliest DNA from the continent, telling a fascinating tale of how early humans lived, traveled and ...

Before the advent of DNA testing, scholars relied on shipping records that listed the African ports from which slaves were exported to determine where in Africa the African-descended population of the ...

I read your column “Do Most Whites Have Traces of African DNA, as I Do?” with interest. The questioner in that column was wondering whether the traces of African ancestry in her DNA test entered her ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies, naturally preserved and buried in the Libyan Sahara, were discovered at the Takarkori rock ...