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This Month's Features
 Will
the ball bounce?
Enjoy a game of cricket. Get the physics of the game, the
inside story on the pitch across the world. What's moisture got to do
with a good game?
 Baboons
vs Humans
Humans and baboons continue to clash in a war for territory. Some
solutions and insight.
 'Green'
fuel technology
As energy sources becomes scarce, scientists look to fuel cell
technology for energy, powering your home, your car.
Food
 Food
for thought
GM Foods, organic foods, pesticides... Harmful mycotoxins can shed a
very different light on the food safety debate.
 A
gut feeling
Goats are gold on four hooves for cash-strapped farmers, but whose to
blame for resistance to worms?
 Foiling
a deadly duo
When two different forms of cassava mosaic disease performed a remarkable
genetic recombination
 Preserve
those herbs
Medicinal
plants - an outline
of the basic requirements for small scale, sustainable cultivation and processing
techniques for rural communities.
Science and society
One
man and African science
Recently awarded the Order of Mapungubwe for his services to
science, who was Schonland?
Women
academics in science
A global pattern: the higher the status and reward, the lower the
number of women. What is your opinion?
HIV in the workplace
Employers don't know enough about HIV
transmission and assume the worst. Discrimination at work despite the law.
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Scientists begin research to trick the body into regrowing diseased
structures such as heart valves and arteries.
What's in your ice-cream? Death-trap for elephants as palm oil plantations
shrink their habitats.
Wetlands and fruit-growing in the
Sahara desert? Algeria shows how it's done.
Climate  change
will inevitably lead to a loss of biodiversity in Africa. What can be done
to protect Africa's wealth?
2003 - International Year of
Freshwater for action on critical water problems
Rainfall in Southern Africa is not behaving
as expected. El nino and drought warnings.
Mozambique - assessments on drought
vulnerability starts
Viral disease hampers bean production in East Africa
HIV vaccine trials are due to start soon. But when? Update on HIV vaccine.
Organisation of the Month:
Drought Research Network For Southern Africa
Books
- Making the Most of Indigenous Trees
- Poisonous Plants of South Africa
Educators
- Working With Wonder 'A Handbook for Holistic
Education in Natural Sciences'
Cyberkids - this month its "show and
tell" time with Science Granny.
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