Compiled and first published 15 Oct 2026 — this is a look back, not an edition originally released in March 2026.
7 carefully selected, sourced stories. Zimbabwean scientific curiosity, healthcare training and new research in schools and hospitals.
From the editor’s desk
The most meaningful scientific breakthroughs are not always dramatic inventions. They are also new capabilities taught locally, new diagnostic skills available at a hospital, a school experiment that sparks a career and university engineers solving a practical problem. Zimbabwe's story includes specialist ultrasound training in the 1980s, locally developed surgical capability, a newer robotics ecosystem and young researchers tackling waste. This issue takes technology seriously without calling a prototype a finished commercial product or claiming Zimbabwe invented a treatment first developed elsewhere. The people who made the machines work—teachers, laboratory technicians, nurses, physicists and students—deserve their own share of recognition.
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A Zimbabwean science student researched a plastic alternative made with cow-dung fibre and an apple-waste-derived plasticiser, earning international recognition in 2026.
