Physicist and former education minister Romain Murenzi said his election as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) is more than a personal milestone. He said it is an opportunity to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a relatively rare situation in which the entire globe is grappling with the same crisis at the same time, albeit with widely varying approaches, resource levels, ...

Dom Byrne is a freelance radio and podcast producer based in Brighton, UK. Molecular biologist Khady Sall returned to Senegal in 2018 after setting up Science Education Exchange for Sustainable ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

A proposed beamline at SESAME in Jordan could give African researchers regular access to synchrotron science while building ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...

Africa’s attempt to shape its own science diplomacy agenda is raising a harder question for the continent’s universities: are they equipped to ...

Twelve schools across Africa have received educational science kits from the IAEA as part of an initiative to promote scientific exploration and inspire students. The initiative aims to cultivate ...

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above ...

South Africa’s President joined dignitaries, scientists, a large media contingent and members of the local community in the small town of Carnarvon today to celebrate South Africa’s successful bid to ...

An continent-wide framework is necessary, argues an advisor to the New Partnership for Africa's Development To succeed in its aspirations of regional and global economic integration, Africa must ...

The time is ripe for African countries to consider designating a new category of travel visas dedicated to scientists and researchers as a way to facilitate scientific development on the continent.