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This Month's Features

The Marula tree to marula beer
Enter here for the full article.A goldmine for local communities: food, furniture, coffee, drums and even beer. Can biotechnology benefit local marula beer?

Butchered: Nairobi park Enter here for the full article. lions
'Red' is the last adult male left at a one time tourist hotspot where 48 lions have been butchered in recent years. 

Enter here for the full article.New cancer drugs 
Hope for colorectal cancer patients as scientists unveil latest drug research. Find out how Erbitux targets the right receptor.

Technology

Enter here for the full article.Steelpan science
The steelpan - music to your ears. Science or art or both? Discover the African origins of this amazing instrument, its high notes and low notes.

Saving the Timbuktu Enter here for the full article. manuscripts
These 13th century Mali manuscripts hold a key to centuries old expertise in science. Efforts underway to rescue these priceless gems.

Health

Enter here for the full article.Designer bone saves limb
A unique partnerships saves a man's arm with the design of locally produced and manufactured titanium prosthesis. 

Enter here for the full article.Pregnant pause in memory
Pregnant and you can't remember where you parked your car? Relax - it may just be those extra hormones.

Enter here for the full articleSA's antiretroviral programme
What are the impacts on people's expectations, healthcare workers, counselling and testing? 

Enter here for the full articleTransplant technology
Breakthrough in transplant technology: donor kidney "protects itself"

Invention

Enter here for the full articleInvention: the mother of necessity
Never a truer statement for an inventor when his inspiration is the impoverished farmers of Ethiopia. Why wait for high tech?

 

  

 

In this Issue

 Enter here for the full article Computer viruses: it's rough out there in cyberspace this month 

Astronomy 

Enter here for the full article Keep an eye out for Mars, the red planet, closer now than it's been for 60 000 years.

Enter here for the full article SA man beats the experts to discovery of a powerful stellar explosion.

Conservation

Enter here for the full article Silencing the birds. Sugarbirds paying the price with poisoned proteas. 

Enter here for the full article Contrary to popular belief, bananas are in fact not going extinct.

Enter here for the full article Extinction alert: Tanzania's famous dugongs to follow the dodo?

  Education

Enter here for the full article It's elementary: how people, places, planets, mythical gods and the Orient have inspired the naming of the elements from California to behind the then Iron Curtain.

Enter here for the full article Open access to scientific research. Is a solution at hand?

Malaria

Enter here for the full article Should Kenya's ban on the toxic DDT be lifted to save  lives from malaria?

Enter here for the full article Malaria epidemic in Ethiopia worsens. Resistance to available drugs.

Competitions

Enter here for the full article SA science lens: enter the annual science photography competition. 

  Funding/Jobs

Enter here for the full article Calls for applications and nominations. 

Enter here for the full article Science jobs/ research posts in biological sciences and more.

 

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