According to Fatima Hassan and Mitchell Warren, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months. Hassan, the ... Read more »

A team of French scientists in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park has developed a deep learning computer system to distinguish between individual giraffes, a tool that could help to ... Read more »

Technology startup Clinic Agro created a kit with a mobile application called Clinic Sol for instant soil testing, writes Anne Nzouankeu for Voice of America. Founder Pyrrus ... Read more »

The bombshell announcement that one of the major international funding instruments for universities in South Africa - and the rest of Africa - is cutting its budget by half and ... Read more »

Africa recorded remarkable economic growth in the first 15 years of the 21st century, largely because of positive trends in the export of primary commodities, among other factors. ... Read more »

Hydrogen can be deployed for various applications across the energy sector, for example, electricity generation, fuel cell electric vehicles and storage systems. This is a possible ... Read more »

Two giant radio galaxies have been discovered with South Africa's powerful MeerKAT telescope, located in the Karoo region, a semi-arid area in the south-west of the country. Radio ... Read more »

According to a study, African technology hubs are challenging the dominance of traditional universities as sources of knowledge production, and are becoming better su Read more »

Near real-time data pinpointing tree losses is helping African countries tackle deforestation, a study finds. A system using satellite data to send free alerts when trees are ... Read more »

An international multi-institutional study initiated by the University of Cape Town (UCT)  involving the scientific and historical analysis of elephant tusks found in the ... Read more »