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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
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This Month's Features
Artificial eggs for bird studies
 When
Dassen Island was opened to tourists, scientists revealed a novel way
of monitoring the effect on the African penguin.
Cyber shepherds at work
 Pastoralists
in the Sahel need not wait for market day to glean information on good
grazing, its now at their fingertips.
New meningitis vaccine
 Joint
venture will produce 25 millions doses of vaccine per year at a
cost as low as $ 0.40 cents per dose for the African meningitis belt.
Conservation
Purple damselflies return
 As
southern Africa faces a biodiversity crisis, the return of two
attractive damselflies from extinction brings much cheer.
War on the "biopirates"
 Environmental
crime units around SA are waging war against an intelligent and often
unseen enemy - plant, animal and insect thieves.
Technology
 Boost for fuel cells
Cheaper purified hydrogen could cut costs in the implementation of
fuel cell technology in the automotive industry.
 A
solution to biofouling
Test-driving the rotoscope,
a new biofilm monitoring invention set to cut costs for industrial
water users.
Solving Tanzania's flouride problem
 How
charred bones, a kiln, lime and alum provide technology in rural areas
to lower hazardous fluoride levels.
Opinion
 GMO's
a sober assessment
A scientist calls for a sober scientific assessment of the ecological
impacts of Genetically modified organisms.
Hunting
for conservation
In Cameroon, commercial hunting for bushmeat has become
such a problem that regulated hunting became a solution to
conservation.
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In this Issue
A chemical that occurs naturally in the leaves of an African plant
could boost men's fertility.
Genetic analysis has revealed that the domesticated donkey was born in
Africa.
Put your river to the test. Take part in a global project for world
water monitoring day.
Scientists discover how "Brown crazy ants" and scale insects
work together to destroy crops in Africa.
Malawian farmers rely on taste to distinguish
between poisonous and non-poisonous cassava - and they get it right.
Drinking water in Ghana comes in
plastic bags, not bottles, creating up to 230 tons of waste by day
in Accra.
Health
Inadequate vaccines can help breed more
vicious malaria strains
Three generic antiretrovirals in one tablet
shows promise in Cameroon trials.
Kano state in Northern Nigeria ends 10 month ban on polio immunisations.
Hepatitis virus hopes. Biotechnology
research provides new hope against and old enemy: the Hepatitis B virus.
Education
Marvin to the rescue of the Starvin'.
A SA teenager's hip short story wins Africa-wide writing contest:
"A Full Food Basket for Africa by 2020".
"Olympic" medals for SA
International Mathematics Olympiad team.
Cyberkids: join the Science Granny for some
travelling tales this month.
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