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This Month's Features

Enter here Monitoring the traveling bugs
Each time we travel on an airline we also travel with the bacteria and viruses of our fellow passengers. Highly sensitive biosensors which may soon be raising the alarm on aircraft.

Enter here  Bee biobalsam to the rescue
From the beehives in the arid Karoo, young SA scientists have found and harnessed an ancient medicine which is
changing the world of aquaculture.

Enter here SA scientist in top 5 worldwide
South African scientist Pr. Tebello Nyokong  announced as the L’ORÉAL-UNESCO laureate for Africa and the Arab states for 2009 for groundbreaking research in cancer therapy.

 Enter here African electric car unveiled
SA designed Joule, the 6-seater MPV  electric car with a 200km driving range per lithium ion battery pack,  makes its worldwide debut

Enter here Fire key to migration out of Africa
 Scientists show Acheulian culture that arose in Africa about 1.6 million years ago - had mastered fire-making ability as long as 790,000 years ago.

Insight/Opinion

Enter here Investment key for rice
 Greater investment to double rice production in Africa is needed to reduce food insecurity as well as improve livelihoods, specialists urged.

Enter here Dramatic fall in malaria deaths
Reason for optimisim as study shows dramatic decline in deaths due to malaria, which on average claims almost two lives per minute.

Focus on children

Enter here The lives SA lost to HIV/AIDS
Including children, study reveals more than 330 000 lives lost to HIV/AIDS in SA due to ARV bungling.

Enter here Africa's HIV children lose out on ARV's
Child friendly drug formulations and longer term counselling approaches needed in the care and treatment of Africa's HIV positive children. 

 

 

   

 

In this Issue

Enter here for the full article The secret to antelopes' sexual prowess is in the knees. Study finds that knee clicking can establish mating rights among antelopes.

Enter here for the full article A computer programmer puts her skills to use in helping beekeepers in the fight against the hive- destroying varroa mite.

Environment

Enter here for the full article Biofuel: South Africa gearing up for a
Biobased Economy emergency with a multi-directional approach.

Enter here for the full article New bird species discovered in Gabon brings fresh hope in a dwindling eco-economy.

Enter here for the full article  Sound conservation efforts at work keep SA's fastest flowing river in pristine condition.

Information technology

Enter here for the full article  Capable of 14 trillion individual calculations per second, scientists laud launch of IBM supercomputer in SA.

Enter here for the full articleSuccessful Zulu language computer interface packs entices the elderly and rurals to bridge the digital divide.

Enter here for the full article Fewer than 100 schools in Africa have been linked to the internet through NEPAD initiative.

Education

Enter here for the full articleAimed at simplifying genetics, new book, Genes for teens, speaks directly to teenagers.

Enter here for the full article Sasol injects R25 million into academia to ensure the development of world-class science and engineering graduates.

Enter here for the full article Science reporting Conference will host experts in topical areas such as Nanotechnology, Climate Change and Alternative Energy.

 

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