Science

[Premium Times] The minister says President Buhari has given the rebranded ministry the responsibility of overseeing that the innovation agenda of the federal government is achieved. (AllAfrica)

[New Times] The University of Rwanda (UR) in partnership with Kent State University is going to introduce Aeronautics and Aerospace Engineering courses to play a part in making Rwanda a hub of aviation by delivering these skills locally. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Maverick] A curved rock face hooks out over a jumble of boulders, and there, more than a dozen figures greet us: red human figures crouch with their bows, below giant eland. Impalas feed on invisible bushes. Another human figure bends back in ecstatic agony -- ancient San shamans regularly strove to induce alternate states of consciousness. (AllAfrica)

[SAnews.gov.za] The National Science Week (NSW) kicked off on Monday and will run until 7 August with an entirely virtual programme featuring exciting content in the form of exhibitions, webinars, documentaries and more aimed at stimulating interest in science in South Africa. (AllAfrica)

[New Times] Rwanda Basic Education Board (REB) is set to deploy over 1,800 laptops during this month of August to different teachers who teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in public schools. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Gilbert Ekugbe takes a cursory look at how scientific innovation and digital technologies can put an end to hunger in Africa and the rest of the world (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Professor Geoffrey Kihara Rurimo cuts an unassuming demeanour for a man of his academic excellence. We hold the interview at his office at Multimedia University of Kenya (MMU), where his accomplishments are revered, but looking around his surroundings, nothing gives away what the 51-year-old has achieved in science. (AllAfrica)

[The Herald] Guo Shaochun -- As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, tracing the origin of the virus is important for preventing possible risks in the future. (AllAfrica)

[Namibian] NAMIBIA'S bio-economy strategy will soon be submitted to the National Council on Science, Research and Technology (NCSRT) for approval. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Kenya is two steps closer to adopting genetically modified maize after researchers submitted their filed trial report to the Ministry of Agriculture. (AllAfrica)

[UCT] Professor Kelly Chibale, the founder and director of the University of Cape Town's (UCT) Drug Discovery and Development Centre (H3D), has been named among 22 rising black biotech leaders in the Timmerman Report, published in the United States (US). Professor Chibale is the only Africa‑based scientist included in the group. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Trust] The Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu ha called for increase spending in scientific research and development to achieve sustainable and meaningful development in the country. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] The President of the Nigerian Institute of Building (NIOB), Builder Kunle Awobodu has urged wealthy Nigerians to invest in research for societal development. (AllAfrica)

[spotlight] The treatment of drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (DR-TB) has been transformed over the last decade with treatment becoming more effective, safer, and treatment duration in many cases dropping to under a year. Even so, treatment can still come with serious side effects and for some, it can still last over a year and a half and involve taking many different pills every day. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Maverick] All personal experience of the world is subjective, having entered through the portals of sense, dream or memory. No experience is possible, be it pain or pleasure, ecstasy or despair, but that which is experienced in the brain. (AllAfrica)

[Nation] Dr Elizabeth Itotia, 29, has swallowed many bitter pills in her path to becoming the first female radiopharmaceutical scientist in Kenya, a feat confirmed by the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya. (AllAfrica)

[Daily News] THE Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in collaboration with Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute (KCRI) have provided training to health professionals from the East African region aimed at building capacity and proficiency in addressing challenges of conducting health research on proper use of medicines. (AllAfrica)

[spotlight] The crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic has not only revealed the systemic weaknesses in healthcare infrastructure in many places but also that the developing world remains far too reliant on rich countries to discover, develop, manufacture and supply the rest of us with vaccines and medicines. (AllAfrica)

[Namibia University of Science and Technology] The 164-million dollar High-Tech Transfer Plaza Select (HTTPS), in collaboration with MTC, was officially inaugurated by the Vice-President of Namibia, HE Dr Nangolo Mbumba. The HTTPS is an inviting space where generation of new knowledge, technology transfer and inventions will contribute to the socio-economic development of Namibia. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Maverick] With carbon dioxide emissions poised to rise to record highs in 2023 and global average temperatures potentially reaching above the 1.5°C tipping point in the next five years, the climate crisis has never been more salient. (AllAfrica)

[New Zimbabwe] LEADING hospitality group Africa Albida Tourism's flagship property Victoria Falls Safari Lodge has handed Zimbabwe's leading professional golfer Scott Vincent a major sponsorship boost ahead of his participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. (AllAfrica)

[The Conversation Africa] One of the most important open questions in science is how our consciousness is established. In the 1990s, long before winning the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his prediction of black holes, physicist Roger Penrose teamed up with anaesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff to propose an ambitious answer. (AllAfrica)

[Oxfam] In response to Jeff Bezos' space flight scheduled for Tuesday, Deepak Xavier, Oxfam International's Global Head of Inequality Campaign, said: (AllAfrica)

[Egypt Online] The Theodor Bilharz Research Institute (TBRI) signed on Sunday a cooperation protocol with the National Research Center (NRC). (AllAfrica)

[UCT] A team of scientists, including those from the University of Cape Town (UCT), have developed a new diagnostic methodology enabling a non-invasive, fast and highly accurate way of detecting tuberculosis (TB). (AllAfrica)

[The Conversation Africa] Hundreds of thousands of years ago, South Africa's Cape south coast looked very different. Some of the species that roamed this area are now extinct; others evolved over the millennia and their modern descendants inhabit different areas - some far away, others nearby. (AllAfrica)

[This Day] Daniel Agada (AllAfrica)

[Vanguard] Kehinde Akinyemi-Okomah is a passionate leader, with a long track record of successful business management. (AllAfrica)

[Daily Maverick] Heat-associated mortality events are common in areas like the Australian Outback, but a recent incident in South Africa that killed nearly 50 birds in a day has scientists worried. (AllAfrica)

[The Conversation Africa] A new variant of coronavirus has swept across the United Kingdom and been detected in the United States, Canada and elsewhere. Scientists are concerned that these new strains may spread more easily. (AllAfrica)

[The Conversation Africa] Late last year the Network for Genomic Surveillance in South Africa (NGS-SA) led by the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (KRISP) identified a rapidly spreading new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The new variant, called 501Y.V2, raises critical questions - including whether current vaccines and treatments will still be effective. (AllAfrica)