Naked Africa

This week, we look at ways to balance the demand for biofuels against the other needs of African farmers. We find out...

This week, we discover the Human Heredity and Health in Africa Project, H3Africa, which hopes to utilise new genetic...

This week, we discover how disease control and intervention, not climate change, could determine the future prevalence...

This week, we find out how science and technology are improving security as well as television coverage at the 2010...

This week we find out about a new initiative bringing together scientists, policy makers and development agencies...

This week, we find out how scientists in the US have created a synthetic, man-made organism which could benefit the...

This week we bring you the latest news including how brains recognise faces and how GM crops are increasing certain...

This week we find out how our ancestors may have interbred with Neanderthals and get a new insight into the way our...

This week, we explore the science behind satellite navigation to find out how our global positioning system, GPS, works...

This week we dig deep into the field of archaeology to see how genetics can help us investigate our human origins as...

This week we reveal how some plants are able to make the most out of forest fires and activate the growth of their...

In this week's news we find outabout a new species of early human, active volcanoes on Venus and a new form of...

This week we explore the science behind our weather to find out if droughts could be predicted to help relief efforts...

This week we solve the mystery of how our arteries form and find out about a new powder from pigs in South Africa that...

In this weeks news we find out how mosquitoes could become flying vaccines and how bacterial fingerprints could soon...

This week we bring you the highlights from the world of science including why some of us feel pain more than others and...

Flexible solar cells, and seeds that can clean water...

This week we investigate the future of our water sources. We'll explore how climate change may affect the...

This week we bring you the latest news from the world of science including how scientists have used their understanding...

This week we bring you the latest news and developments in the world of science as well as an insight into how...

This week we discover what turns sperm 'on', investigate the true colour of dinosaurs and reveal how...

This week we find out why it may be beneficial to run barefoot, how new high-tech sanners could home in on cancers and...

Explosives, Salmonella vaccines and homing pigeons...

This week we brave the cold of Antarctica to find out how scientists at the South African National Antarctic Programme...