Africa needs long-term investment in scientific infrastructure and science careers to allow the continent to adapt to climate change and its effect on weather systems. New research led by the ...

The African continent is splitting along a triple junction of rifts that converge in Afar, Ethiopia. A new ocean may take ...

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 ...

Have you ever asked yourself why Science has not thrived in Africa as it has done in other continents? Well, one probable answer would be that Africa is just a few hundred years old according to the ...

The ancestor of apes was long thought to come from East Africa, but newly discovered fossils in Egypt may prompt a rethink.

Across universities, laboratories, think tanks and policy institutions worldwide, these African scholars are producing work that bridges theory and practice, informing academic debate, government ...

Destiny Amenyedzi is using science and machine learning to solve a global problem. The native Ghanaian and Ph.D. student at the University of Rwanda is using AudioMoths (highly sensitive microphones) ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. The names are one part of ...

The coveted computer science degree has promised graduates six-figure salaries and exciting careers in high-tech spaces since the personal computer took off in the 1990s. As an academic discipline, ...