A rhythmic mantle plume, like a "geological heartbeat," was discovered beneath Ethiopia at the Afar Depression, ripping the ...

Beneath the African continent, powerful plumes of molten rock are slowly reshaping the land from below. Scientists studying ...

Dar es Salaam. A new study funded by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) has called for urgent reforms to unlock the potential of ...

The Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday it intends to publish a proposed rule that would limit the length of time foreign students are allowed to stay in the United States. Since 1978, ...

Ireland's Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Harris announced today, Thursday, August 28, the imminent arrival in Ireland of 52 Palestinians from Gaza. The first group of 26 is ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bipedal locomotion - walking upright on two legs - is a fundamental trait underpinning humankind’s success. Scientists now have identified two innovations that occurred long ago ...

The pelvis is often called the keystone of upright locomotion. More than any other part of our lower body, it has been radically altered over millions of years to allow us to accomplish our bizarre ...

Now a new study in Nature led by Harvard scientists reveals two key genetic shifts that remodeled the pelvis to help human ancestors become the upright bipeds ...

Fossilized teeth show that two different kinds of ancient human ancestors coexisted more than 2 million years ago. One of ...

Fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia suggest two distinct human ancestor species lived alongside each other between 2.6 and 2.8 ...

Private colleges and universities in the Lehigh Valley contributed more than $2 billion to the economy, generated more than $119 million in local and state taxes and supported more than 15,000 jobs, ...