Half of the world’s population lives in just seven countries. But some of the world’s religious groups are even more concentrated than that.

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

The problem, Zaaijer explained, is that algorithms used in precision medicine models overwhelming are built on DNA with ...

The American Christian right, particularly its evangelical wing, can savor a recent victory. On November 1, Donald Trump launched a diplomatic campaign against Nigeria, designating Africa's most ...

A newly created high-resolution map of the roads that threaded across the Roman Empire charts the ancient network from Great Britain to North Africa and has added more than 60,000 miles of roads that ...

Asheville’s Black population is disappearing faster than that of comparable cities in North Carolina, a trend that is accelerating and has transformed not only the makeup of the city but its cultural ...

There are only about 350 mature leopards left in West Africa, according to the latest regional assessment by the IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority. Leopards (Panthera pardus) in West ...

There is little information in court filings about the dozen plaintiffs who challenged the state’s voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander. By Abbie VanSickle Reporting from Washington One made ...

He noted that 2024 elections based on statewide House and Senate maps approved in 2023 resulted in African-American candidates winning 38 of the 170 seats—a proportion in line with the state's Black ...

Gigantic trenches known as gullies are opening up in cities in Africa, swallowing up homes and businesses, sometimes in an instant, a study has found. About 118,600 people, on average, in the ...

Nearly 80 years after Imperial Japan's surrender ended World War II, the number of American veterans who served in the conflict has fallen to around 66,000, according to the Department of Veterans ...

The African Union has joined a campaign calling for the widely-used Mercator map, which makes Africa appear smaller than it is, to be replaced with a map that more accurately reflects the continent's ...