The extremely difficult conditions in which University of the Witwatersrand's (Wits) Professor Lee Berger's Rising Star team was forced to work, gave rise to the use of space-age technology to map the ...

While the Department of Education says it will continue with its troubled Dinaledi schools project, analysts believe the project has failed. Education specialists and the Democratic Alliance's shadow ...

Johannesburg - The Dinaledi school project, aimed at improving maths and science performance, is on track, the basic education department said on Monday. "The 2010 NSC [national senior certificate] ...

Two spelunkers stumbled upon a trove of ancient hominid bones in South Africa's Rising Star Cave System in 2013. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the skull of Leti, the first _Homo naledi_ child whose remains were found in ...

VR apps, open access data, social media searches—this expedition wants to update its field. On September 10, 2015, scientists formally announced that a new species of hominin had been discovered in ...

In 1964, Louis Leakey and colleagues proposed the name of Homo habilis, the "handyman," for fossil remains of a human ancestor in Tanzania, making it the earliest species in a genus that includes us, ...

Deep within the Dinaledi chamber of the Rising Star cave in South Africa, a mysterious cache of over 1,000 bones corresponding to some 15 or so ancient hominins was found. Scientists are now calling ...

More than R4 million has been rolled over to Dinaledi schools in Limpopo, after the province failed to spend more than half of its budget in the 2012/2013 financial year. The recent adjusted estimates ...

The Dinaledi school project, aimed at improving maths and science performance, is on track, says the basic education department. "The 2010 NSC [national senior certificate] results show that while the ...