Technology and Science

Top officials from the African Union and United Nations issued urgent warnings on Tuesday about Africa's accelerating desertification crisis, calling for immediate action to prevent ecological collapse and climate catastrophe. The stark assessments came during the...

Africa is reeling under the mounting impacts of climate change, with scorching heatwaves, devastating floods, and prolonged droughts displacing hundreds of thousands, disrupting education, and pushing food systems to the brink of collapse, according to a...

In his first formal address to the College of Cardinals on Saturday, Pope Leo XIV positioned artificial intelligence as one of the defining moral challenges of the modern era while pledging to uphold the inclusive vision...

A wayward relic of the Cold War space race is about to make an unplanned homecoming. Kosmos 482, a failed Soviet Venus lander that has been stranded in Earth orbit since 1972, is predicted to reenter...

By Enyichukwu Enemanna The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has joined the growing list of African countries to welcome Starlink, a satellite internet service provider owned by tech billionaire and South African-born Elon Musk. The company...

In an unexpected twist, new satellite data reveal the Antarctic Ice Sheet has reversed its decades-long decline, gaining significant mass between 2021 and 2023. The findings, published by researchers at Tongji University, challenge long-held assumptions about...