Oluwafayokunmi Olurinola's plastic road prototype, designed to prevent potholes caused by water and increase the lifespan of the roads in Ijebu-Ode, earned the ten-year-old the top ... Read more »
By genetically arming an already deadly fungal pathogen with a powerful toxin, researchers conducting an experiment in Burkina Faso dramatically reduced the mosquito "field" ... Read more »
Emile Coetzee, who said the consumption of wild food, including nutritious weeds in our gardens, can "reduce the gap of sustainability and poverty" in the near future, was crowned ... Read more »
Ghaneshree Moonsamy says she is "so glad to have made it to the finish line" after the Durban University of Technology converted her thesis for a Masters degree in Biotechnology ... Read more »
An electronic waste management system which earned Nobuhle Ndebele, Lindokuhle Nene, Reitumetse Nkhahle and Gauta Matlou the top spot at the 2019 Hult Prize Challenge may be enough ... Read more »
With access to high-quality broadband and cloud computing continuing to spread, organisations are recognising artificial intelligence's (AI) ability to help with some of the ... Read more »
Baleka, Africa's first two-legged robot, is the brainchild of Dr Amir Patel and his team at the University of Cape Town and sets the stage for the future of robotics research. The ... Read more »
Professor Roger Deane of the University of Pretoria was part of an international group of scientists who made history by capturing the first ever image of a black hole. Deane and ... Read more »
The Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Gauteng has successfully performed the world's first 3D-printed total middle-ear transplant on a patient born with an underdeveloped middle ear. Read more »
After three-and-a-half years of negotiations, seven countries - South Africa, Australia, China, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom - have signed a treaty in ... Read more »
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