With statistics showing that five people become infected with HIV for every two entering treatment, researchers are anxious to find ways of cutting the stubbornly high infection ... Read more »
Countries must agree strict rules on "killer robots" - autonomous weapons which can assassinate without human involvement - a top Red Cross official has said amid growing ethical ... Read more »
The South African National Space Agency has been selected by the International Civil Aviation Organisation to become the designated regional provider of space weather information ... Read more »
Roy Allela, 25, has invented smart gloves which convert sign language movements into audio speech. The gloves, named Sign-IO, have sensors stitched on to each finger which ... Read more »
South Africa's Department of Science and Technology has welcomed the launch of the ZACube-2, which will allow cutting-edge remote sensing of ocean traffic and wildfires, as well as ... Read more »
The Conversation Africa has asked Dr Julien Benoit to discuss five important moments in palaeontology you may have missed during 2018, and what they mean. These include some major ... Read more »
The Academy of Science of South Africa has released a study it says is aimed at creating a more certain regulatory environment for government departments on matters relating to ... Read more »
The breakthrough comes as people across the world question the throwaway consumerist culture that has swamped the world in a toxic tide of plastic that is killing marine life and ... Read more »
According to Greenpeace, highly detailed satellite data has revealed that Mpumalanga Province in South Africa is the world's "worst" air pollution hotspot on the planet, due to its ... Read more »
A UN climate change expert panel said in a special report on Monday that the world needs to move much faster and more dramatically if global warming is to be contained to anything ... Read more »
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