Services allowing consumers to perform banking and payment operations on their mobile phones are surging in sub-Saharan Africa, blazing a trail for the rest of the slower-moving world to follow.
Telecom
Apr 27, 2015
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Thousands of plant species have adopted a "parasitic" mode of life, living off a host plant which supplies it with water and nutrients. Most of these remain harmless, but a few have evolved to become serious agricultural ...
Biotechnology
Apr 9, 2015
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With the global population rising, analysts and policymakers have targeted Africa's vast wet savannas as a place to produce staple foods and bioenergy groups at low environmental costs. But a new report published in the journal ...
Environment
Mar 16, 2015
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Scottish scientific expertise has helped to develop a potentially transformative new method of tackling African sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease which poses a risk to over 70 million people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Biochemistry
Jan 15, 2015
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(Phys.org) —Declines in populations of pollinators, such as bees and wasps, may be a key threat to nutrition in some of the most poorly fed parts of the globe, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Sep 17, 2014
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Small-scale family farmers across Africa— already struggling to adapt to rapidly rising temperatures and more erratic rains—risk being overwhelmed by the pace and severity of climate change, according to the 2014 African ...
Environment
Sep 3, 2014
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Switzerland has claimed the top spot on the Global Innovation Index for the fourth-straight year while Sub-Saharan Africa "posted significant regional improvement".
Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 19, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A sensor which can be used to screen for diabetes in resource-poor settings has been developed by researchers and tested in diabetic patients, and will soon be field tested in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bio & Medicine
Jun 2, 2014
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(Phys.org) —Researchers discovered several possibly threatened new species of ensign wasps from Sub-Saharan Africa—the first known insects to exhibit transverse folding of the fore wing. The scientists made this discovery, ...
Plants & Animals
May 2, 2014
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Mining the genome of the disease-transmitting tsetse fly, researchers have revealed the genetic adaptions that allow it to have such unique biology and transmit disease to both humans and animals.
Biotechnology
Apr 24, 2014
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