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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
Pollinators and biofuel
 With
the current urgency in alternative fuel, a key ingredient in the
biofuel equation may well be overlooked - pollinators.
Africanising bees
 Faced
with substantial losses of bees, could African bees be a
solution to North America's problems?
Environment
Spying aliens traveling to Antarctica
 Scientists
map the aliens unwittingly carried in scientists' luggage and on ships
as they travel the icy waters to Antarctica.
Yellow rain is free fertilizer
 Rain
is still clear but not in the honeybee toilet zone. Find out how
honeybees provide free nitrogen rich fertilizer.
Mapping soil erosion in Kenya
 Scientists
mapping ancient oceanic coral reef tells the history of Kenya's soil
erosion through the decades.
Insight & Opinion
 Racing
ahead with biodiesel
 Ethanol
powered engines will run on fuels made from the US corn surpluses
which currently feed Africa - biodiesel technology offers a solution
Africa's fight against fake drugs
Officials clamp down on counterfeit pharmaceutical drugs in
Nigeria where prevalence is as high as 30 percent
Telemedicine for sub-Saharan Africa
Satellite solutions delivering information and communication
technologies can help improve health in sub-Saharan Africa
Nigeria
gets down to business with HIV
A plan to guide the private sector’s response to the
sexually-transmitted Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been
unveiled in Nigeria.
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In this Issue
Scientists trace tooth decay bacterium back to Ancestral Eve a single
common ancestor over 100,000 years ago.
South African scientists wait for harvest time as genetically modified
plants nears field trials.
Egyptian fruit bats crave particular types of sugar to reduce the
effects of ethanol toxicity.
Study shows men experience hot flashes similar to those experienced by
menopausal women
Climate change
Time to Climate Proof Africa - govt urged to incorporate climate change
issues in their regional policies
Climate change: study maps those at greatest risk
from cyclones and rising seas
Early measures to adapt could reduce
humanity’s vulnerability to climate change.
Scientists reconstruct the history of land temperatures in Central Africa
based on the molecular fossils of soil bacteria.
Southern Africa - erratic weather, rains, cyclones, severe
flooding, extreme drought threaten the lives of over a million.
Education
Two new books on Mathematics follows the history of mathematics in
Africa.
TWAS -new fellowship programmes for PhD, Postdoctoral and Advanced
Research
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