Estimates are that one million HIV infections have been prevented, saving the cost of treating and monitoring those cases, ...

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Beneath the mosaic floors of Roman villas, an ingenious system of underfloor heating transformed warmth into a mark of power ...

The Innovea Breeding Network has been identified as one of 300 inventions making the world “smarter, better, and more fun”.

A Crisis of Relevance in African Academia In lecture halls across Africa, a quiet tragedy unfolds every day. Brilliant professors — full of knowledge, passion, and vision — sp ...

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Reach Industries, Silas Adekunle, is a Nigerian-British inventor and technology ...

To assign a rating is to assign a place in the global economic order—to decide who deserves credit and who must atone for risk. In this theater, Africa appears as a pupil under constant ...

Extreme situations, such as military clashes or fires, often require extraordinary approaches to solving a particular problem ...

The Land of Sweet Forever' features short stories, essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh posthumous look at the 'To ...

African countries lag significantly behind G20 nations in digital infrastructure, a gap that threatens to deepen economic ...

At the heart of this conflict stands a megadam that holds the promise of prosperity for millions, but also the risk of escalating tensions. Ethiopia’s ambitious project aims to generate enough ...

Lin Dorman became the first Black chemist hired at Dow on Nov. 1, 1960. He is being remembered as an award-winning chemist ...