It is hard to miss the African section of Viva Tech, where French President Emmanuel Macron has said his country will invest U.S.$76 million in African startups. He said innovation ... Read more »
The research team studying the newly-discovered human relative, Homo naledi, has been surprised to find that although the species' brain was small, it had a humanlike shape. This ... Read more »
The automatic identification system payload of South Africa's ZACUBE-2 satellite will allow it to proactively detect forest fires and track the position, speed and registration of ... Read more »
For a long time, zoologists assumed that there were only two species of elephant: one Asian and one African. Then genetic analyses suggested that the African Elephant could be ... Read more »
Eco-farming techniques could deliver nutritious, environmentally friendly food for a growing world, increase farmers' earnings and make farms more resilient to climate change, ... Read more »
Speaking on a presidential panel at the Next Einstein Forum 2018, a global gathering that drew over 1500 scientists, businesspersons and policymakers, Rwandan president Paul ... Read more »
Professor Robert Millar has won the U.S.$100 000 African Union Kwame Nkrumah Award in the Life and Earth Sciences category. Read more »
A committee found that in its pure state, cannabidiol - commonly referred to as CBD - does not appear to have abuse potential or cause harm. It recommended that the compound not be ... Read more »
Diatoms, which are the equivalent of grass in the sea because of their great abundance and importance, are responsible for most of our planet's photosynthetic energy conversion. ... Read more »
2018 will be a watershed year for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) with the collaborative radio telescope project set to determine how galaxies similar to our own formed billions ... Read more »
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