SA tech student wins global innovation award.
Nitasha Pillay (21) from Chatsworth in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) has brought home an international award from Dubai as one of the...
Unsung Black Female Engineers
Less than 10% of engineers in SSA are women , yet it could be the solution to Africa’s ability to...
STEM Education Support Necessary to Grow Scarce Skills
A review of last year’s matric results highlights the gaps in education in South Africa (SA) and nowhere is it...
Five Great Reasons to Celebrate Women in Science
As the scientific community is realising that the unique skills and perceptions women bring to the laboratory, times are a...
Research Identifies Neurons behind Feeling Sick
Certain neurons in the brainstem control sickness behaviours not directly caused by a pathogen, such as tiredness and lack of...
New roadmap for NTD’s in Africa
While African leadership is considered key to building the resilience of control programmes, scientists are joining forces to contain the...
Women In Science – A Silent Revolution
A documentary by *Kate Thompson-Gorry (see below), made in collaboration with Canal+ International and the L'Oréal Foundation, highlights the importance...
Africa has highest proportion of female STEM graduates
But women remain outnumbered in academia The latest report compiled by Times Higher Education (THE) and the United Nations Scientific,...
African cassava genome breakthrough
Researchers, of which most are women, from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETH Zurich), have successfully mapped...
Upcoming Science Events in July and August
National Science Week 2022 – 1 to 6 August Theme: Celebrating the role of basic sciences in the modern world...