Aging may not be only a story of cells wearing out. It may also be a story of cells learning how to hide. Researchers have identified an immune-checkpoint protein that helps senescent cells – damaged, ...

For years, the governing assumption in Africa’s fast-growing gaming industry has been that regulators face a trade-off: tighten the rules and risk strangling a lucrative market, or let the market run ...

For much of the past three years, the story of artificial intelligence has been told in superlatives. Trillions of parameters. Billions of dollars in compute. Data centers rising like cathedrals ...

For six years, Khaby Lame conquered the internet without uttering a word. A shrug. A deadpan stare. Two upturned palms and that now-iconic gesture – this is the simple way. It was a language without ...

In a year when the shine came off Botswana’s diamonds and consumers across Southern Africa pulled back, Choppies Enterprises Limited did something that might seem counterintuitive: it kept opening ...

The University of Botswana (UB) is set to confer an honorary Doctor of Letters, honoris causa (DLitt), on internationally acclaimed San rights activist, Mr Roy Sesana, in recognition of his lifelong ...

For most Batswana, copyright is an abstraction – the fine print nobody reads, the warning that flickers before a film, the symbol stamped on the back of a textbook. Last month, in a modest ...

Shelved under philosophy, Louw’s work wears its erudition lightly. There are no dense thickets of jargon here, no Teutonic abstractions demanding a glossary. Instead, Louw mines the ordinary – the ...

President Advocate Duma Boko is approaching a defining decision over the future of Botswana’s intelligence services. The contract of Brigadier Peter Fana Magosi, the long-serving director general of ...

A rebellion is simmering inside the Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), where a bloc of regional chairpersons has begun pressing the party’s embattled president, Mpho Balopi, to relinquish the helm while ...

The University of Botswana (UB) will confer an honorary Doctor of Letters degree (Doctor Litterarum Honoris Causa, DLitt) on Dr Matshidiso Moeti, in recognition of her leadership in public health and ...