Potential benefits of human genome editing include new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent genetic disorders. But there’s a significant gap in regulation.
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Nigeria’s academic community is mourning the death of virology professor and leading researcher, David Olufemi Olaleye.
Inserting electrodes into insects helps scientists understand what attracts these insects – and, stemming from that, how to trap them and protect crops.
At its core, the constitution holds a moral vision of people as autonomous moral agents, capable of rationally forming their own opinions.
Species distribution data – or a lack thereof – can have a major bearing on how a country’s Key Biodiversity Areas and protected areas are designated.
Ethically, vaccine mandates are justifiable on multiple levels, based on the common good and a public health ethics framework.
The decision is supported by the government’s policy environment in recent years. This has aimed to increase innovation, and views technology as a way to achieve this.
An expert says Nigeria’s capacity to access space support for development and security will be affected if its satellite goes down.
Stronger agricultural R&D systems will enable agriculture to power Africa’s transformation.
On starlit nights, the Milky Way acts as these beetles’ primary reference. But light pollution gets in the way.
Parties who design the technologies and platforms on which mobile apps are built and marketed must be brought within the legal accountability framework to close the privacy loop.
There are no body fossils of elephants from this time period, so the available information of how these gigantic animals moved through the ancient landscapes depends entirely on the track record.
Traditional herbal medicines and cosmetics remain popular in South Africa especially in rural areas where they are part of people’s culture.
Finding a fossil tooth embedded in bone is always great news for palaeontologists, as it is the gateway to some otherwise out-of-reach understanding of the behaviour of extinct animals.
Scientists enjoyed informing, exciting and inspiring the public.
A lie about children’s paternity back in 1700 means tens of thousands of South Africans today are using the wrong surname.
Jackals appeared and established themselves in Africa in at least the last five million years. These animals have evolved and adapted to the changing environment, allowing them to survive.
This is a crucial dinosaur for palaeontologists; the variety of fossils available means researchers can study the species’ growth through its whole life span.
Realities on the ground tell a different story from the claim that a Green Revolution ensures food security and increased income for smallholder farmers in Ghana.
She believed and advocated that Africa needs to find solutions to its own problems and worked tirelessly to build biomedical engineering capacity across the continent.
There are significant gaps in what teachers in Ghana know about ozone depletion and climate change, even though these subjects are in the science curriculum.
The study yields the first direct chemical evidence for honeybee product exploitation in West Africa.
We now know that Bokoni Phase I was built as early as the 15th century – before the arrival of European colonisation or trade.
The pandemic has underscored that the world requires agility for survival. That makes blue skies science, which encourages curiosity and nimble thinking, perhaps more important than ever.
Given the central role that ethnicity played and still plays in South African politics, it is good to have an unbiased estimate of Afrikaners’ genetic history.