Africa: 'Baldur's Gate 3' Became the Surprise Hit of 2023 By Upending Conventional Wisdom About What Gives Video Games Broad Appeal

Few predicted that the smash hit video game of 2023 would feature old-school game mechanics, hours of brooding cutscenes and a vexing learning curve. Read more »

Africa: Colonized Countries Rarely Ask for Redress Over Past Wrongs - the Reasons Can Be Complex

The king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, apologized in July 2023 for his ancestors' role in the colonial slave trade. Read more »

Africa: ChatGPT Turns 1 - AI Chatbot's Success Says As Much About Humans As Technology

ChatGPT was launched on Nov. 30, 2022, ushering in what many have called artificial intelligence's breakout year. Within days of its release, ChatGPT went viral. Screenshots of… Read more »

Africa: Drone Fishing in South Africa Is a Danger to Sharks and May Be Unfair to Other Fishers - Study

"Drone fishing" is a relatively recent innovation in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. Some recreational anglers are using personal drones to fly baited lines into hard-to-reach… Read more »

Africa: Building African Cities That Cope With Climate Shocks - Experts Outline What It Will Take

The international climate change negotiations began almost three decades ago when many were still hesitant to accept that human activities were changing the planet. Now the… Read more »

Africa: COP28 - How Bad Is Climate Change Already and What Do We Need to Do Next to Tackle It?

As the latest UN climate change summit (COP28) gets underway in Dubai, conversations around limiting global warming to 1.5°C will confront a harsh reality. Global temperatures… Read more »

Africa: As Seas Get Warmer, Tropical Species Are Moving Further From the Equator

Climate change is causing tropical species in the ocean to move from the equator towards the poles, while temperate species recede. This mass movement of marine life, termed… Read more »

Africa: African Countries Lost Control to Foreign Mining Companies - the 3 Steps That Allowed This to Happen

Within a few years of independence, African governments asserted sovereignty over their metal and mineral resources. Prior to this, the resources were exploited by European mining… Read more »

Africa: Climate Action for Africa in 2023 - Three Big Developments

2023 is highly likely to be the hottest year ever recorded. And climate change is to blame for one-quarter of the global population being exposed to dangerous levels of extreme… Read more »

Africa: Low Emissions and Economic Survival - Countries in the Global South Aren't Getting a Fair Deal

In 2015, more than 140 countries signed up to the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. For countries in the global south this is a huge task. On the one hand they have… Read more »

Africa: As Disasters and Heat Intensify, Can the World Meet the Urgency of the Moment At the COP28 Climate Talks?

Eight years ago, the world agreed to an ambitious target in the Paris Agreement: hold warming to 1.5°C to limit further dangerous levels of climate change. Read more »

Africa: Stones Inside Fish Ears Mark Time Like Tree Rings - And Now They're Helping Us Learn About Climate Change

As a marine biologist, I've always found it fascinating to learn about how animals adapt to their habitat. But climate change has made it more important than ever - wild animals'… Read more »

Africa: COP28 - How 7 Policies Could Help Save a Billion Lives By 2100

In a recent review of more than 180 peer-reviewed articles -- which I conducted with fellow researcher Richard Parncutt -- we found that a scientific consensus has formed around… Read more »

Africa: Umaru Shehu - Nigerian Public Health Giant Who Played a Major Role in Polio Eradication

Professor Emeritus Umaru Shehu, who died on 2 October 2023, was born in Yerwa (Maiduguri), Nigeria, in 1930. Widely regarded as one of the country's early leaders in public health… Read more »

Africa: Earth's Magnetic Field Protects Life On Earth From Radiation, but It Can Move, and the Magnetic Poles Can Even Flip

The Earth's magnetic field plays a big role in protecting people from hazardous radiation and geomagnetic activity that could affect satellite communication and the operation of… Read more »

Africa: Stem Cell Therapy Shows Promise for Treating Multiple Sclerosis - New Study

Over 2 million people globally have multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease that affects the nervous system and can lead to problems moving, seeing and thinking. Read more »

Africa: Faith Communities Are Rallying to Check Climate Change - Their Size and Influence Counts

According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), more than 80% of the global population are motivated by a faith or spirituality. Faced with the triple planetary… Read more »

Africa: COP28 - Inside the United Arab Emirates, the Oil Giant Hosting 2023 Climate Change Summit

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), the world's seventh largest oil producer, will host the 28th UN climate change summit (COP28) in Dubai from November 30 to December 12. Presiding… Read more »

Africa: Online Foreign Exchange System Aims to Enable Cross-Border Payments in Local Currencies - What You Need to Know

The high cost of making cross border payments on the African continent has driven governments on the continent to seek options of settling trade and other transactions in local… Read more »

Africa: How Worried Should We Be About the Pneumonia Outbreak in China?

Reports of a surge in pneumonia-like illness primarily affecting children in northern China have captured our attention. The last time we heard about a mysterious respiratory… Read more »

Africa: The Way a Sperm Tail Moves Can Be Explained By Mathematics Worked Out By Alan Turing

Alan Turing might be best known for his work helping to crack Germany's "Enigma" communications code during the second world war. But he also came up with a theory where patterns… Read more »

Africa: Drug Resistance May Make Common Infections Like Thrush Untreatable

Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest global threats to health, food security and development. This month, The Conversation's experts explore how we got here and the… Read more »

Africa: No Compelling Evidence That Air Purifiers Prevent Respiratory Infections - New Study

The COVID pandemic led to many calls for improved indoor air quality with claims that doing so would reduce the risk of the virus spreading. But the real-world evidence to support… Read more »

Africa: How Do Viruses Get Into Cells? Their Infection Tactics Determine Whether They Can Jump Species or Set Off a Pandemic

COVID-19, flu, mpox, noroviral diarrhea: How do the viruses that cause these diseases actually infect you? Read more »

Africa: Should the Media Tell You When They Use AI to Report the News? What Consumers Should Know

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the media landscape, both for news organisations and consumers. Applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing AI are creating new… Read more »