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Fighting in Côte d’Ivoire has claimed a new victim: the University of Abobo-Adjamé, where the country’s doctors take their first courses.
The CSIR has been listed as one of the world’s top science and technology think tanks for the first time.
Classrooms have emptied at Zimbabwe’s National University of Science and Technology (Nust) medical school.
South African research surges, but still lags rest of the world.
The South African government sulked when its schools twice came last out of all the African countries that participate in the global TIMSS study.
Almost a third of researchers chosen for a global scientific assessment are from developing nations.
Steenkamp describes physics as "always looking for answers to the ‘how does it work?’ question".
Ten department of science and technology employees were rewarded with "free" tickets to the World Cup quarterfinals in Port Elizabeth last Friday.
Ecologist wins Unesco award for research into the invasive lantana weed in the Sabi and Sand rivers.
Research by a PhD student suggests that municipal governments will have to reassess air pollution monitoring priorities as climate change kicks in.
South African plant pathologist is using an indigenous soil fungus to improve the stadium soccer fields for the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
The study itself consists of an assessment of mathematics and science, as well as student, teacher and school questionnaires.
South African researchers have been criticised for not attending the launch of a pan-African gathering of biosafety experts.
As head of the pan-African science council, Egypt is urging other countries to meet the target spending of 1% of GDP.
Christina Scott reports on South Africa’s bid to host a major astronomy project.
<i>Touched by TB</i> will have its premier on World Tuberculosis Day at the SciFest Africa in Grahamstown.
Ecologist Dr Bob Scholes has been writing daily emails from the Antarctic to his son about the work he is doing aboard the <i>SA Agulhas</i>.
Rewind to 1980: diesel mechanic Johan Nortje was about to live his dream. He was to spend a year at the South African base in the Antarctic.
Ten South African high school learners return home on a high after attending a sold-out science lecture series in the United Kingdom.
Christina Scott asks whether science centres educate or merely entertain.
