The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take ...

Africa needs long-term investment in scientific infrastructure and science careers to allow the continent to adapt to climate change and its effect on weather systems. New research led by the ...

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above ...

A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs ...

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 ...

The coveted computer science degree has promised graduates six-figure salaries and exciting careers in high-tech spaces since the personal computer took off in the 1990s. As an academic discipline, ...

Destiny Amenyedzi is using science and machine learning to solve a global problem. The native Ghanaian and Ph.D. student at the University of Rwanda is using AudioMoths (highly sensitive microphones) ...

Across universities, laboratories, think tanks and policy institutions worldwide, these African scholars are producing work that bridges theory and practice, informing academic debate, government ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Africa is the world’s fastest-growing continent by ...

Have you ever asked yourself why Science has not thrived in Africa as it has done in other continents? Well, one probable answer would be that Africa is just a few hundred years old according to the ...

Materials science is where ideas become power. Civilizations do not advance merely by possessing resources. They advance by learning how to transform matter—reliably, precisely, and at scale. Ore ...