The South Asian summer monsoon sustains billions of people today. For a long time, the prevailing scientific view has held that the formation and intensification of the South Asian summer monsoon were ...

Turns out Toby’s new trick is thousands of years old. A pair of recently discovered fossils from Africa has immortalized a small critter’s 126,000-year-old butt-dragging habit, according to ...

Explore the Dogon Tribe's astronomical knowledge and the ancient cosmic mystery of Sirius B. How did this remote tribe know ...

Mandible of a hunter-gatherer woman who lived 7900 years ago at Matjes River Rockshelter in the Western Cape, South Africa, for whom a genome was reconstructed. In one of the largest African ...

From the Vredefort Dome in South Africa (the world's oldest and largest known meteorite impact structure) to the volcanic lakes of the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, Africa's landscapes hold some of ...

Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats to this heritage Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine Gedi is another ...

Learn why the idea of an ancient African drying period is now being challenged and what this means for the story of the first humans. Changing climate conditions have been known to foster human ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...