Africa: City Planners Are Questioning the Point of Parking Garages

For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking, the better. Read more »

Africa: ChatGPT Is Great - You're Just Using It Wrong

It doesn't take much to get ChatGPT to make a factual mistake. My son is doing a report on U.S. presidents, so I figured I'd help him out by looking up a few biographies. I tried… Read more »

Africa: Guinea Worm - a Nasty Parasite Is Nearly Eradicated, but the Push for Zero Cases Will Require Patience

A painful, parasitic disease that once infected 3.5 million people per year is tantalizingly close to being eradicated. Read more »

Africa: The 'Kraken' Subvariant Xbb.1.5 Sounds Scary. But Behind the Headlines Are Clues to Where Covid's Heading

The XBB.1.5 subvariant, known informally as "Kraken", is the latest in a menagerie of Omicron subvariants to dominate the headlines, following increasing detection in the United… Read more »

Africa: Vitamins and Supplements - What You Need to Know Before Taking Them

If you were to open your medicine cabinet right now, there's a fair chance that you'd find at least one bottle of vitamins alongside the painkillers, plasters and cough syrup. Read more »

Africa: Covid Still a Global Emergency, WHO Says, but We're At a Transition Point. What Does This Mean?

As we enter the fourth year of living with COVID, we are all asking the predictable question: when will the pandemic be over? Read more »

Africa: People With Light Skin Are At Higher Risk of Skin Cancer. How to Reduce Sun Exposure

Most skin cancers are caused by too much exposure to the sun - specifically solar ultraviolet (UV) radiation or rays. These can damage the cells in the skin and cause them to… Read more »

Africa: Long Covid - a Range of Diets Are Said to Help Manage Symptoms - Here's What the Evidence Tells Us

Most people who contract COVID recover within a few weeks. But for some people, symptoms can develop later, or persist for a long time after the initial infection. A recent review… Read more »

Africa: Fossil Teeth Reveal How Brains Developed Over Millions of Years of Human Evolution - New Research

Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about important parts of our… Read more »

Africa: ChatGPT - Our Study Shows AI Can Produce Academic Papers Good Enough for Journals - Just As Some Ban It

Some of the world's biggest academic journal publishers have banned or curbed their authors from using the advanced chatbot, ChatGPT. Because the bot uses information from the… Read more »

Africa: Jetlag Hits Differently Depending On Your Travel Direction. Here Are 6 Tips to Help You Get Over It

After a few difficult years of lockdowns and travel restrictions, people are finally winging their way across the globe again; families are being reunited and sights are being… Read more »

Africa: Children Lost One-Third of a Year's Learning to Covid, New Study Shows - but We Need to Think About the Problem Differently

Children's learning progress has slowed substantially during the pandemic, roughly equating to a loss of around 35% of the typical learning in a school year, according to a new… Read more »

Africa: Pope Francis in DRC and South Sudan - One of His Most Challenging Visits Ever

On 31 January, Pope Francis departed from Rome to central Africa, to visit the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and its neighbouring state South Sudan. The visit was previously… Read more »

Africa: Inequality in Access to Basic Services Is a Major Problem in Sub-Saharan Africa - but Progress Is Being Made

Economic activity and development are unevenly distributed across regions of the world and within any country. In other words, where someone lives can determine their economic and… Read more »

Africa: Children and Teens Aren't Doing Enough Physical Activity - New Study Sounds a Health Warning

Physical inactivity is the fourth leading cause of death worldwide. It's also associated with chronic illness and disability. Recent research estimates that the world could see… Read more »

Africa: What Makes Archaeology Useful As Well As Exciting? It Offers Lessons From the Past

Archaeology is fun. It's so much fun that sometimes people do not treat it with the seriousness it deserves. Studying the past, through what people leave behind, can offer insights… Read more »

Africa: It'll Take 150 Years to Map Africa's Biodiversity - And We Can't Protect What We Don't Know

The African continent is bursting with biodiversity. In a 2016 report, the United Nations Environment Programme wrote: Read more »

Africa: Covid Booster Vaccines - How a Third Dose May Help Vulnerable People 'Level Up' Their Immunity

COVID vaccines call our immune systems to action, generating antibodies which fight against any contact we have with the virus. Antibodies help to reduce the effects of an… Read more »

Africa: Eliminating Neglected Diseases in Africa - There Are Good Reasons for Hope

Togo had reason to celebrate in 2022 when it became the first country in the world to eliminate four neglected tropical diseases. The west African nation stamped out Guinea worm… Read more »

Africa: Even Bivalent Updated Covid-19 Boosters Struggle to Prevent Omicron Subvariant Transmission - an Immunologist Discusses Why New Approaches Are Necessary

By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success. Read more »

Africa: Free Online Courses Could Be a Path to Higher Education in African Countries but Awareness Is Low

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the largest regions in the world and has the lowest rates of participation in higher education anywhere in the world. The World Bank reported in 2020… Read more »

Africa: Yoga - Modern Research Shows a Variety of Benefits to Both Body and Mind From the Ancient Practice

The popularity of yoga has grown tremendously in the past decade. More than 10% of U.S. adults have practiced yoga at some point in their lives. Yoga practitioners spend on average… Read more »

Africa: Large Mammals Shaped the Evolution of Humans - Here's Why It Happened in Africa

That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it's not generally recognised how unique features of Africa's ecology were responsible for the crucial evolutionary… Read more »

Africa: Directors Need Limits to How Many Boards They Sit On. Stretching Their Time Too Thinly Is Risky

Experienced directors of companies are in high demand in countries around the world. For this reason, many hold multiple directorships. Read more »

Africa: We Tested the Wastewater From Planes to Detect Covid Among Travellers - Here's What We Found

Small traces of many pathogens, such as viruses we may be infected with, are excreted when we go to the toilet. Ultimately, these agents find their way to municipal wastewater… Read more »