While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of President Trump's controversial executive order to rename the body of water.

A map of deadly infectious diseases known to attack the central nervous system (CNS) of people who are already suffering with HIV has unearthed diagnosis "blank spots" in Africa, according to research ...

By Yan Zhuang Google has renamed the Gulf of Mexico as Gulf of America in its Maps application for users in the United States. The company started implementing the change after the U.S. government ...

Apple Maps and Bing Maps are both joining Google by changing their Maps software and apps to now display Gulf of America on the body of water that's been known as the Gulf of Mexico since the 16th ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

The body of water formerly known in the United States as the Gulf of Mexico is now listed for US-based users of Google Maps as the Gulf of America. The change follows an executive order by US ...

The so-called land question has been a decades-long dilemma for South Africa. Apartheid, dismantled in the 1990s, left a deep-seeded legacy of land inequality after centuries of policies pushed ...

For users of Google Maps in the United States, the body of water bound to the east by Florida, Cuba, and the Yucatan Peninsula, and to the west by Texas and Mexico, is now the Gulf of America.

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Instead, it addressed South Africa, freezing aid to the country among other measures over its government’s alleged “egregious actions.” “We will not be bullied,” South Africa’s ...

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order vowing to stop “aid and assistance” to South Africa over “human rights violations” including a land reform act ...