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June 2006 -
Antarctic Month
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*2003 World Summit Award recognition
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*2003 Winner of the Highway Africa New Media award
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* 2002 Winner of the
NSTF Award for Science
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This Month's Features
Spiders: the African farmers friend
 Increasing
recognition of spiders as natural control agents of insects and
mites in crops could yield benefits for the agroindustry.
Off the grid for 5 years
 With
rolling power cuts across many parts of South Africa and many parts
of the world, people all over are saying 'I want to go off the
grid'.
Alternative fuel DIY
Power your own lawnmower
 A
series of articles shows you how you can use waste fruit, possibly
from your garden, to make your own fuel.
Concentrating your fuel
 Learn
how to concentrate ethanol fuel from a raw fermented fuel mixture by
building your own solar still.
Making fuel grade ethanol
 Once
you have made your own fuel, simply build a reflux column to concentrate
the fuel to run a two
stroke engine.
Solar cells take stellar leap
 An
advanced photo voltaic system that is providing the final push
needed to make solar power an accessible energy option.
Genetics and race
 Skin
colour and race
By measuring skin-colour and looking at how it is affected by
ultraviolet light, scientists have made some fascinating conclusions
about how human beings have evolved.
 Race
and research
How do you tell what race a baby is? A scientist explores
the role of science and society in the way race was classified.
Heart
disease and
 genes
Scientists explore the role of genes and inherited mutations in heart
disease in certain populations groups.
Insight
Rural women in the wired world
International Women’s Day (IWD) provides an opportunity
to consider another form of digital divide — the one that separates men from
women — and to look at some recent attempts to build bridges across it.
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In this Issue
brings hope
People wearing compression stockings on long-haul flights may have one tenth the
risk of developing (DVT).
Tracking the role that migratory wild birds play in introducing the
highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu
Fugitive Emissions - the bad guys of the pollution world who avoid
even the toughest seals!
The missing link? Hominid fossils from Ethiopia link ape-men to more distant human ancestors.
Lake Naivasha, Kenya’s second largest lake is in crisis - a precious wetland degraded beyond recognition.
Wood - ways in which the sustainable contribution of this solar energy
source can be maintained in Africa.
Research ethics:
Better regulation is needed to ensure that research carried out
in Africa and other developing countries is ethical, says an expert.
Education
Face to face with the reality of trying to empower the best of the best
selected for schooling from the Langa Township in maths and science.
A considerable outreach effort to mark South Africa's national
science week from May 13 to 20 kicks off.
Festivals make for a good science experiment: add a dash of students, a
sprinkling of teachers, and stir
Events
June
is Antarctic Month in South Africa. Find out what events are planned near
you.
Competition/Funding
Scientific writing competition to develop content for free high
school science textbooks for South Africa.
Call for nominations to award innovative contributions to biological
science, including basic medical science, on sub-Saharan Africa.
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