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*2003 World Summit Award recognition
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Winner of the NSTF Award for Science
Winner of the Highway Africa
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This Month's Features
Africa - continent on the move
 Africa
is being torn apart. As Ethiopia's rift valley grows slowly wider,
scientists plot the progress of the continent on the move.
Jawless fish fossil discovery
 A
south African student discovers a 360 million-year-old lamprey,
demonstrating that modern lampreys are remarkable living fossils.
Tree bark may ward off malaria
 Scientists
upbeat about a compound extracted from a rare tree bark in the
Madagascar rain forests for the prevention of malaria.
Environment
Weather talk
 With
climate change, talking about the weather has taken on a whole new
meaning - learn the lingo.
Wake up and smell the coffee
 Coffee
lovers the world over are drinking coffee illegally grown inside one
of the world’s most important national parks for tigers and
elephants.
Insight & Opinion
 Wikileaks:
corruption buster?
A new online service dedicated to exposing corruption aims to give
whistleblowers the opportunity to do so without being caught.
Obstacles on the road to sustainable biofuels
Renewable energy could create major opportunities alleviating poverty
and mitigating climate change, but can developing nations benefit?
Nurses: unwitting TB carriers
More than half of all healthcare workers in the developing
world, including Africa, are unknowingly infected with latent
tuberculosis
Antiretroviral medication for refugees
New policy ensures HIV-positive refugees around the world have access
to ARVs.
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In this Issue
Fluctuations in sex hormones provide insight into menstrual-related
mood disorders.
A prehistoric human skull from the Eastern
Cape of South Africa has provided a vital "missing link" in the
fossil record.
Scientists say certain antidepressants and a new drug on the market
more than doubles the odds of stopping smoking
Extreme weather leaves flamingos at Lake Bogoria in Kenya without
food
Madagascar - discovery of a new bat species that has large flat
suckers, attached to its thumbs and hind feet.
More than half of the dust needed for fertilizing the Brazilian rainforest is
supplied by a valley in northern Chad
Education
Comet McNaught did far more than provide a visual feast it got us
thinking and talking science and astronomy.
Gaming to greying hair - young science writers reveal their take on
science
A "Super-Silly Science Game" designed by South African
scientist launched.
Africa's largest science festival kicks off next month with a feast for
budding scientists.
Funding
An optimistic look
Call for proposals for science platform months and communication
workshops in South Africa
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