What did our ancestors think when they looked up at the night sky? All cultures ascribed special meaning to the Sun and the Moon, but what about the pearly band of light and shadow we call the M...
Nairobi -- The World Health Organization's African regional office and partners published over 25 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals in 2023 as part of efforts to address the imbalanc...
The more gender equal a society is, the more similar men and women will be, adopting more similar interests, personality traits and behavioural patterns. Or so many people seem to believe.
Zimbabwean archaeologist Shadreck Chirikure, who is Edward Hall Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford, is among four outstanding research leaders awarded a major Europe...
It has so far been attested that scientific advances and technological change are increasingly becoming important drivers of recent economic performance and development and sustainable growth. T...
Flowers may look delicate - but flowering plants, what scientists call angiosperms, are one of the most successful evolutionary organisms on the planet. Including more than 350,000 known species...
The First edition of the International Space Symposium, focusing on the theme 'New Space for Mauritius', was launched this morning, by the Minister of Information Technology, Communication and I...
As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous. But in 2017, while a Ph.D. student of paleobiology at the University of Bristol in the U.K., I heard a gleeful exclamation from across the ...
Tunis -- "The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research is working to set up Tunisia's first artificial intelligence (AI) institute at the University of Tunis, covering all training f...
Hansen's disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today - and that's partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery...
Nigerian scholar, Dr Abdulrazak Ibrahim, invented an insect control technology that is protecting farmers' crops in Brazil.
The Government of Belgium has committed financial and technical assistance to support research, agriculture, innovation, and tourism initiatives in the country's public universities.
Nairobi -- A pan-African initiative supporting science granting councils has boosted Sierra Leone's National Science, Technology and Innovation Council, helping it gain international recognition...
When one Chinese national recently petitioned the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become a permanent resident, he thought his chances were pretty good. As an accomplished biologist,...