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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 New Media award
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This Month's Features
Jelly fish taking over the oceans?
 They're
silent and mysterious, reproduce rapidly and by sheer force of
numbers jelly fish are taking over vast slabs of the ocean.
Stone tools from fire sheds new light
 Research
findings in a cave near Mossel Bay suggest that this is the origin
location for the lineage that leads to all modern humans.
Mysterious nodding disease
 Referred to as "nodding disease", a rare and unexplained brain disease has
affected hundreds of Ugandan children, health workers say.
Swine flu infects deep into lungs
 Researchers
say pandemic swine flu can infect cells deeper in the lungs than
seasonal flu explaining severe symptoms.
Insight & Opinion
Breastfeeding and HIV
 Scientist
says the debate on the safest and healthiest infant feeding choice for
HIV-positive mothers in the developing world should be over.
What would Darwin think?
 We
wonder what Darwin would think if he could survey the state of his
intellectual achievement today, 200 years after his birth.
Investing in maths in Africa
Africa’s shortage of skilled scientists and mathematicians is limiting the
continent’s potential to lift itself out of poverty
Climate change and AIDS activists: a likely
union?
The people of sub-Saharan Africa, already bearing the brunt of the
global HIV/AIDS epidemic, are also likely to be worst hit by the
effects of climate change.
Impacts of corporate seed control Growing
corporate control of seeds means that farmers in developing countries are losing
one of their best hopes to limit the impacts of climate change.
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In this Issue
The search for an AIDS vaccine has taken a step forward with the discovery
of two powerful new antibodies that can cripple the HI virus.
Acacia tree promises to revive Africa's soils - a free source of nitrogen
that could last generations.
A marriage between the only two civilian high-power computing centres in
Africa should help improve disaster response times and track epidemics using
satellite data.
Agriculture
Swarms of invasive red locust were checked by scientists using fungal
biopesticides known commercially as Green Muscle®.
Scientists closer to making a
break-through in developing cassava varieties with resistance to both
Cassava Brown Streak Disease and Cassava Mosaic Disease
Conservation
Conservationists can go into the field to try to track the health of
the world’s forests. Or, they can sit at home and read the radar
data
African scientist wins World Food Prize for developing a variety of sorghum
resistant to both drought and the parasitic weed striga.
Capturing Africa's fires by satellite remains tricky - with poachers blamed
for the majority of uncontrolled fires.
Africa's low intensity fires - used for cooking and heating blamed
for the majority of carbon emissions.
Education
Fellowships for women from developing and emerging economies . Call for
applications..
Think like inventors' South Africans told
ahead of biotechnology innovation conference . |
