Earlier this month, a two-year programme was launched, with an aim to build capacity of science journalists and improve science coverage in Africa, recognising the important role of science journalism in promoting Africa’s socioeconomic development. Sam Otieno in scidev, writes that the project will focus on strategic areas of the AAS including health and wellbeing, climate change, food security and […]
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Earlier this week, during a ceremony held in the Reid Conference Center, NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, officially opened a new computational research facility, in honor of African American woman Katherine G. Johnson, who plotted key space missions to help advance the nation’s space program in the 1960s. In a ceremony that was […]
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John Butler-Adam writes in academic rigour that over the past five years, Africa’s contributions to the world’s research that is, new knowledge have varied from a low of 0.7% to the present and highest level of 1.1%. However much there’re sum of knowledge journals and articles published by scientists and scholars in scientifically recognised journals each year, including Africa’s contribution, […]
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Since the end of colonialism, African countries have suffered from a technology gap compared to their former colonial powers, which most African countries have been unable to overcome. African countries face the challenge of using technology to leapfrog industrialization, development and growth. This means African countries must pursue technology-led industrialization, development and growth. According to […]
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Kamau Gachigi, head of Gearbox, Nairobi’s leading maker space emphasized that technology can help Africa prepare for a doubling of it’s population by 2050 during TEDGlobal conference in Tanzania. Africa needs more engineers and makers with practical digital fabrication labs to help people become more practical and more productive building economies that will sustain it’s population growth. […]
The AIMS Fellowship Program for Women in Climate Change Science seeks to foster increased female participation in and contribute to a more sustainable societal response to climate change. This Fellowship Program was made possible by a grant from the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada, www.idrc.ca, and financial support from the Government of Canada, provided through […]
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Katrina Nagin writes in restore that, five billion people worldwide are unable to access essential surgical care, suggesting that to address this global health crisis, there is need to encourage more women to join the operating table in order to help close global health crisis. According to the Global Surgery 2030 Report, five billion people lack access to essential […]
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Astronomers from the University of Geneva, Switzerland have focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an exoplanet that had already been seen losing its atmosphere, which forms an enormous cloud of hydrogen, giving the planet the appearance of a giant comet. During earlier observations in 2015, it was not possible to cover the whole cloud, whose […]
In an industry where men outnumber women, the tech scene in Ghana has seen some tremendous growth over the years. From software development, training, influencing, blogging, engineering, to leadership roles with top global I.T giants, Anne Amuzu, CEO Nandi Mobile is one of the top women blazing the trail for women in this space in […]
Researchers at Durham University in the UK have used nanobots to drill into cancer cells, killing them in just 60 seconds. They are now experimenting on micro-organisms and small fish, before moving on to rodents. Clinical trials in humans are expected to follow and it is hoped that the results may have the potential to […]
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