Frontline heroes battle disease in Rwanda
Rwanda’s female community health workers have been beating back malaria—can they do the same for…
Fighting the fungus
Many African countries are working to curb the threat posed to human and animal health by mycotoxins. But climate change could set back their progress,…
The promise and pitfalls of using AI to diagnose mental illness
Smart algorithms could soon help doctors diagnose neurological diseases like autism and schizophrenia. But will such tests be accurate in Africa? Sarah Wild reports. No…
On Science and Homecoming: A diaspora African’s view
Neither guilt nor sentimentalism should drive an African diaspora scientist’s choice to return home, writes Sara Suliman, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University in the…
Yam genetics unveil cradle of agriculture in Africa
African yams were domesticated from a forest species and cultivated for the first time in an area around the Niger River. The findings, published in…
Scientists fight drug-resistant fungal infections with light
A group of scientists hailing from India, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa are using light to fight drug-resistant infections. Their work, published this month in…
Exposing radioactivity in the building blocks that make up Accra
African cities are growing rapidly, with buildings mushrooming in major centers around the continent. But scientists in Ghana are concerned that building materials could be…
Understanding how tsetse flies smell their prey could save lives
Scientists are examining how tsetse flies, which transmit deadly sleeping sickness in humans and nagana its animal counterpart in Africa, located their prey using their…
Embedding traditional birth attendants in clinics and hospitals in Ghana could save mothers
Despite government efforts to boost access to maternal health services in Ghana, many women still choose to go to traditional birth attendants, rather than midwives,…
We’re very excited
To launch this first issue of Scientific African Magazine this month. When we launched Scientific African, peer-reviewed, open access, inter-and a multidisciplinary scientific journal that…
