A groundbreaking study reveals that Delhi's air pollution is deadlier than estimated, with PM1 levels undercounted by 20%.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in zoo gorillas, but its origins remain unknown. Researchers from the University ...

New genetic links have been discovered between genetically predicted height and an individual's likelihood of developing a ...

The research, published in NPJ Genomic Medicine, used data from six cohorts of diverse ancestries, including European, ...

Fonio – a gluten-free grain with many nutritional benefits – has been cultivated as a subsistence crop in West Africa for thousands of years.

Africa has the most countries of any continent with a total of 54. Rather than following natural terrains or historical boundaries, many of its borders are strikingly straight in some areas and ...

It is credited with saving more than 26 million lives and is critical to HIV programs in Africa, the continent hardest hit by the disease. There, health officials, experts and people with HIV have ...

Enoch Godongwana has suffered a major blow after the coalition deadlocked over his budget South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been forced to postpone the unveiling of the national ...

South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has been forced to postpone the unveiling of the national budget following sharp disagreements within the coalition government. Coalition partners ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

But just scrapping USAID cannot be the final step. Leaving it at that would create a dangerous power vacuum on a continent like Africa, where U.S. foreign policy should put forth a viable ...