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New climate fiction game shows how our choices will shape the future
Today, 10 May, people around the world will get to decide what their climate futures will look like by playing Survive the Century , a climate fiction game about the political, environmental and social choices humans will face between 2021 and 2100 as we adapt to the ravages of climate change. This online game is a work of fiction, but it is informed by real science.
10 May 2021
Scaled up bioinformatics training to help scientists tackle continent’s urgent health challenges
Bioinformatics training is being delivered on an unprecedented scale throughout Africa to help scientists tackle some of the continent’s most urgent health challenges, thanks to a new collaboration between Wellcome Connecting Science and H3ABioNet , the Pan African Bioinformatics Network for the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa).
07 May 2021
UCT professor highlights the needs of autistic people in Africa
Founding director of the Centre for Autism Research in Africa (CARA) based at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Professor Petrus de Vries, has called for autism researchers worldwide to work in closer partnership with families and communities and to build more capacity for autism research in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC).
07 May 2021
Sub-Saharan Africa in desperate need of clinical haematologists
Sub-Saharan Africa faces a shortage of clinical haematologists. This urgently necessitates that more medical professionals embrace this branch of medicine and receive adequate training to specialise in this scarce skills area.
06 May 2021
Lessons from the pandemic in the words of Nobel Laureate Professor Abhijit Banerjee
With a pandemic underway, the daunting outlook of economic contraction on the horizon and rampant climate change, the world is facing hard times. What can economics teach us about recovery?
03 May 2021
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