The plant-eating dinosaur, named Ledumahadi mafube, weighed 12 tonnes and stood about four metres high at the hips - nearly twice the size of a large African elephant. Read more »
Scientists have found a tiny fragment of rock which was marked with intersecting lines of red ochre pigment some 73,000 years ago. The discovery is the oldest-known example of ... Read more »
The world will on July 27 experience blood moon - a spectacular total lunar eclipse. The eclipse is predicted to last a record-breaking 1 hour 43 minutes. A total lunar eclipse ... Read more »
Kenyan scientists have joined their contemporaries in the United States, New Zealand and Colombia in researching means to reduce harmful methane emissions by breeding less ... Read more »
An image of a patch of space 25,000 light years away constructed from radio signals captured by South Africa's MeerKAT telescope array has revealed the clearest-ever snapshot of ... Read more »
A team of European scientists have made a breakthough in the quest to ensure the survival of northern white rhinos - a species which is functionally extinct since only two females ... Read more »
In order to generate African solutions to African challenges, researchers on the continent are being offered grants to come up with new drugs to fight malaria, tuberculosis and ... Read more »
A 2-metre-wide asteroid illuminated the sky above the South Africa-Botswana border as it burned up in a fireball caught on CCTV footage. Read more »
"The African continent offers many of the best conditions for conducting clinical trials. It has a diverse population of potential patients, and many have not been previously ... Read more »
"The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project is an example of a promising knowledge-based initiative. It could be one of the drivers that contribute to the country's economic growth," ... Read more »
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