Continuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still wake at 3am and wonder if something’s wrong. It might help to know that this is a deeply ...

Marie Van Brittan Brown and her husband, Albert, filed for the patent in 1966 and received approval three years later.

Many inventions get revised over time. The pandemic gave one medical school student an idea about changing the stethoscope.

Across Africa’s universities, a quiet but urgent debate is unfolding. Should African professors keep chasing international ...

Ordway Music Theater, 345 Washington St., St. Paul, $23-$287, 612-333-6669 or mnopera.org) This is the last week to see Kelli ...

ASU’s SolarSPELL, solar-powered literary devices, increase educational access and were recently named one of Time's best ...

Elly Savatia, 25, is a Kenyan inventor and social entrepreneur who won the prestigious 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering ...

As of mid-2025, roughly 31 of Africa’s 54 nations still criminalize same-sex relationships. The latest addition to that list ...

Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday inaugurated the Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu Library Complex at Lagos State ...

Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Reach Industries, Silas Adekunle, is a Nigerian-British inventor and technology ...

Situated on the West coast of Africa, with the equator running through it, the tiny island of Sao Tome was uninhabited before being colonized by the Portuguese in 1486. Now being investigated ...

A military coup has unfolded in Madagascar, according to an Associated Press report that also indicates the country's parliament voted to impeach President Andry Rajoelina, who recently fled the ...