December 05, 2022
Africa: Earthshot Prize - Five Winners That Will Help Solve Major Environmental Problems
Climate change is one of the greatest threats ever to face humanity. With mounting storms, fires, floods and droughts and the annual disappointment of international negotiations,… Read more »
Africa: Why We Need Open-Source Science Innovation - Not Patents and Paywalls
As we prepare to invest money to prevent the next global pandemic and find solutions to many other problems, science funders have a large opportunity to move towards open science… Read more »
Africa: A Liver Disease Drug Could Be Repurposed to Protect Against Covid - New Research
Almost three years into the pandemic, we're still regularly seeing hundreds of thousands of new COVID cases recorded each day worldwide. In a new study, involving a combination of… Read more »
Africa: Pharma's Expensive Gaming of the Drug Patent System Is Successfully Countered By the Medicines Patent Pool
Biomedical innovation reached a new era during the COVID-19 pandemic as drug development went into overdrive. But the ways that brand companies license their patented drugs grant… Read more »
December 08, 2022
Africa: China's Belt and Road Infrastructure Projects Could Help or Hurt Oceans and Coasts Worldwide
More than one-third of all people in the world live in cities, towns and villages on coasts. They rely on healthy oceans for many things, including food, income, a stable climate… Read more »
December 04, 2022
Africa: A Dangerous Pesticide Isn't Being Monitored in Key Bird of Prey Populations - We're Shedding Light On That Gap
It was once regarded as a miracle chemical to protect against disease and improve global food production. The man who discovered its properties even won a Nobel Prize for medicine.… Read more »
December 02, 2022
Africa: New Book Lifts the Lid On Who Profits from Corruption in South Africa
The new book The Unaccountables: The Powerful Politicians and Corporations who Profit from Impunity is welcome for the way it contextualises corruption. It shows how politicians… Read more »
December 03, 2022
Africa: World Cup Final 16 - African Performances Mark a Definitive Moment in Football
For Africa to have multiple teams go beyond the group phase to reach the Round of 16 in a World Cup is a milestone. The remarkable result at the 2022 men's Fifa World Cup in Qatar… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Africa: Digital Storytelling Can Be a Powerful Tool for Water Researchers
Storytelling and science may, at first glance, seem like strange bedfellows. Scientists usually share their research through academic journals and books or at academic conferences. Read more »
Africa: Twitter Lifted Its Ban On Covid Misinformation - Research Shows This Is a Grave Risk to Public Health
Twitter's decision to no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy, quietly posted on the site's rules page and listed as effective Nov. 23, 2022, has researchers and… Read more »
Africa: Ventilation Reduces the Risk of Covid. So Why Are We Still Ignoring It?
At the end of the third year of the pandemic, we are no longer surprised to hear we're in a new wave of infection. It's fuelled by new sub-variants of the virus that may evade… Read more »
Africa: 'Historic Moment' as Ramaphosa Faces Possible Impeachment
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has an impeachment case to answer. This was the finding of the independent parliamentary panel probing the scandal over the theft of… Read more »
November 30, 2022
Africa: South Africa's Intelligence Watchdog Is Failing Civil Society. How to Restore Its Credibility
In October, South African president Cyril Ramaphosa and his cabinet committed to a range of reforms to the country's intelligence services. He based these reforms on… Read more »
Africa: Overweight Women May Be At Highest Risk of Long Covid - New Research
While hundreds of thousands of people are still getting COVID every day across the globe, reassuringly, the number of people dying as a result of the infection has dropped… Read more »
Africa: What Covid Has Taught Us About Sharing Our Emotions - and Why Now's a Good Time to Share Again
Although they were only two-and-a-half years ago, the first months of the COVID pandemic and ensuing lockdowns seem like a distant past. Read more »
November 29, 2022
Africa: Six Common Covid Myths Busted By a Virologist and a Public Health Expert
Almost three years into the pandemic, myths and misinformation remain widespread. Here we, a virologist and a public health researcher, debunk some common misconceptions about… Read more »
November 23, 2022
Africa: Black Panther Is a Step in the Right Direction
From Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness to the recent She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, comics and their adaptations or spin-offs are big business. The just-released Black… Read more »
November 28, 2022
Africa: HIV Prevention - New Injection Could Boost the Fight, but Some Hurdles Remain
While the world has focused on the COVID pandemic for nearly three years, less and less attention is being paid to HIV. However, HIV is still a global problem. In 2021, according… Read more »
November 27, 2022
Africa: Covid Nasal Sprays May One Day Prevent and Treat Infection. Here's Where the Science Is Up to
We have vaccines to boost our immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID. We have medicines you can take at home (and in hospital) to treat COVID. Now researchers… Read more »
Africa: RSV FAQ - What Is RSV? Who Is At Risk? When Should I Seek Emergency Care for My Child?
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November 26, 2022
Africa: Land Reform in South Africa - 5 Myths About Farming Debunked
South Africa's land reform policy remains highly contested. But, in our view, a number of persistent myths about farmland statistics and the structure of commercial agriculture… Read more »
Africa: Rock Art - How South Africa's Coat of Arms Got to Feature an Ancient SAN Painting
A new exhibition in Johannesburg titled !ke e: xarra ke - People who are Different: Come Together celebrates the rock art of the San people, the first inhabitants of southern… Read more »
November 25, 2022
Africa: Black Panther - Wakanda Forever Reclaims the Myth of an African Utopia
Black Panther is set in the fictional country of Wakanda. The creation of the Wakandan African identity has been a contentious issue. Borrowing aspects of cultures from around… Read more »
November 24, 2022
Africa: We Discovered a New Species of Owl - but We Already Think It's in Danger
As part of an international team of scientists we have confirmed a new species of owl after decades of speculation that it exists on Príncipe Island, part of the Democratic… Read more »
Africa: Journalists Reporting On the Covid-19 Pandemic Relied On Research That Had Yet to Be Peer Reviewed
A story on gender inequity in scientific research industries. A deep dive into the daily rhythms of the immune system. A look at vaccine effectiveness for COVID-19 variants. These… Read more »