New research from the Future Ecosystems for Africa program at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, has ...

But these new pathways may promise a further, pivotal leap in terms of connecting Africa to the outer world. Looking at a map of Africa with these new and projected pathways highlighted ...

A team of researchers led by UC Santa Cruz recently released a sophisticated new map that reveals, for the first time, the unique “geologic fingerprints” for most of the African continent. The map ...

At the heart of this campaign is a simple but powerful truth: Africa is massive – covering 30.37 million square kilometers, enough to accommodate the United States, China, India, and most of ...

High-resolution satellite imagery has been used to map every single tree in Africa, demonstrating a technique ... We'll also keep you up to date with New Scientist events and special offers.

As a demonstration of the potential applications for their new map, researchers reviewed prior strontium isotope analysis of human remains in the Americas. Some prior studies had identified enslaved ...

Genetic testing databases lack enough samples from Africa to make detailed matches ... enslaved people buried in Charleston with the new map, they found that two individuals likely came from ...