About 5,000 Jackson-area volunteers were included in a group of nearly 30,000 African-Americans whose genetic information the scientists used to create the map. The map pinpoints genome locations ...

From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered by the importation of African captives. At first, like their poor English counterparts, the Africans ...

The number of African Americans earning bachelor's degrees in the physical sciences and engineering has grown during the 10-year period from just under 6,000 degrees earned in 2005 to more than ...

Maths and physics whizz Wandile Mabanga has launched Map Blitz, a puzzle game that challenges teams to quickly build a map of Africa, the Sunday Times reported. Mabanga first came into the ...

A study of African elephants suggests they may be more numerous than they were four years ago, scientists say. They think there are from 400,000 to 660,000 elephants across the continent, with large ...

The South African Internet Map ... The different websites are grouped into categories, where the physical size of each category on the map is based on the total traffic of the websites in that ...

But as my colleague Craig Whitlock points out, the United States already has boots on the ground in a surprising number of African countries. This map shows what sub-Saharan nations currently have ...

A just-published, “definitive” study of Jews of North African origin has set their place on the genetic map of the Jewish Diasporas. This completes research of contemporary Jewish populations ...

“We learned a lot at the first African championships in Nigeria. The top women’s football teams – like Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon, play a very physical game. It became very clear to us that ...

Prostate cancer has a higher incidence and mortality among African American men compared to men of all other racial and ethnic groups living in the US (Jemal et al, 2002). The explanation for this ...

Aim: To address high rates of inactivity and related chronic diseases among African–American women. Materials & methods: Eleven focus groups on physical activity barriers for African–American ...