Orrorin tugenensis is one of the oldest known hominins and may represent the earliest species confidently linked to bipedal walking. Fossils from Kenya dating between about 6.1 and 5.7 million years ...

Archaeologists found 120,000-year-old human footprints in Saudi Arabia, revealing insights into ancient migration and life ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

We don't really understand AI's inner workings, so we're effectively flying blind. The availability of artificial intelligence for use in warfare is at the center of a legal battle between Anthropic ...

Editor's note: This is an update of the profile published in December of the great African musician Fela Kuti. The original post was published when it was announced that Kuti would become the first ...

The Our Homecoming founder becomes the first African woman to design a Nike sneaker, bringing Lagos and the diaspora to the global stage. Grace Ladoja has spent years building bridges between Africa ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA indicates that natural selection continued to shape hundreds of genes. By Carl ...

Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer ...

What makes this idea so compelling is that it flips the usual Mars fantasy on its head. We picture astronauts planting flags, building bases, and becoming the first true Martians, but the harsher ...

On 12 April 1961, exactly 65 years ago, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first human spaceflight in history, ushering in the era of crewed space exploration and paving the way for the study of ...

A priest is pictured in a file photo accepting offertory gifts during Mass at St. Therese of the Child Jesus Catholic Church in Yaounde, Cameroon. Pope Leo will travel across 11 cities, 18 flights and ...