Twelve schools across Africa have received educational science kits from the IAEA as part of an initiative to promote scientific exploration and inspire students. The initiative aims to cultivate ...

Africa's health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialize its own medical innovations, rather than rely on increasingly uncertain international funding, African science leaders have ...

Second, Mugabe noted that regional collaborations are also getting set up to organize and coordinate science efforts in all parts of the continent. And third, he reminded me, in the past couple of ...

The governments of more than 40 African countries attending a meeting in Dakar, Senegal, recently (September 30) pledged their support for a $160 million plan to boost science and technology across ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

South African astronomy started an important journey two decades ago, when an initiative to attract and train future scientists in the field welcomed its first group of students under the National ...

Every part of the global response to the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rests on an early act of African science. When reports of a severe illness cluster reached ...

The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate change on Earth. The plot dramatizes the consequences of a shut-down in an ...

Despite Africa’s growing digital footprint, the continent’s science and technology remains underrepresented on Wikipedia, one of the world’s most visited sources of information. While Africa accounts ...

In the face of geopolitical fragmentation, tightening aid budgets, and global systemic shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic, African leaders can no longer ignore the need to invest in science. As ...

A calcium-enriched feldspar mineral from Canada. Image by Tim Sandle. Food security remains one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century. Despite advances in agricultural science, ...