Environmental DNA like skin cells, blood and faeces can be extracted from water, soil, ice or air to provide a good snapshot of an ecosystem.
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A closer look at these fossil bones revealed more than the suggestion of a previously undescribed species - it pointed to the individual animal having suffered with osteoarthritis.
Almost all theories of human bipedalism explain it as a terrestrial adaptation. A new study does not support that view.
As US-Africa leaders meet, it should be clear that aligning respective goals, priorities and actions is in the interests of the US and of African countries.
Traditional research outputs like journal articles don’t often give voice to communities’ stories.
There are several reasons that TB patients don’t or can’t adhere to their treatment.
Across the world, phenological events are occurring increasingly earlier as a result of climate change.
As the world’s population ages, cheap, durable and safe artificial limbs will become ever more important.
Tiny plant and insect fossils provide unique insight into an ancient ecosystem that would, later, be altered by climatic shifts.
Ghanaians aren’t using the new ‘smart’ street address system which was intended to improve service delivery.
A central repository system offers practical solutions to reducing the large number of awaiting-trial inmates in Nigeria.
Ghanaian urban and development planners need to move away from looking up to examples of innovations from the global north.
Mangroves support a significant amount of biodiversity and their soils can capture a great deal of carbon.
Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
Track marks are a way to fill in the blanks that sometimes exist in the body fossil record.
The digital transformation of Kenya’s agriculture will become a reality if it can link viable digital solution providers with potential beneficiaries.
A new ‘rule book’ for naming genomically sequenced bacteria is a boon for science.
Predictive policing has improved in leaps and bounds and become increasingly automated thanks to big data, data mining and powerful computers.
An understanding of bird biology is the starting point for conservation efforts. 3-D reconstructions of biological structures greatly add to this understanding.
There are ‘jewels’ among the piles of ash that remain once sugarcane’s fibrous material is burned.
Without intervention, the rock may have been destroyed by high tides and storm surges.
Even by conservative estimates, Mozambique’s snakebite figures are far higher than previously thought.
Financial support for science and research in Nigeria remains pathetic. This has led to the deterioration in the quantity and quality of trained virologists at universities.
Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, alongside the fossilised remains of its prey.
In some African countries, astronomical research is quite developed.