Ugandan President ready to sign GMO Bill into law
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUgandan President Yoweri Museveni has given the clearest indication yet that he is ready to sign the National Biotechnology and Biosafety Bill into law. The President has directed the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) caucus to convene a meeting and resolve the impasse that has stalled the passing of the bill into law. Speaking during […]
Farewell to Katherine Johnson
Reading Time: 3 minutesA BRILLIANT mathematician at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and a trailblazer for women in science, Katherine Johnson broke racial and gender barriers as one of the first few African-American women to work as a NASA scientist. During her time at NASA from the 1950s to 1980s, she became renowned for her mathematical […]
Sea turtles have a deadly attraction to stinky plastic
Reading Time: 2 minutesSEA TURTLES around the world are threatened by marine plastic debris, mostly through ingestion and entanglement. Now, researchers reporting in the journal Current Biology on March 9 have new evidence to explain why all that plastic is so dangerous for the turtles: they mistake the scent of stinky plastic for food. “We found that loggerhead […]
How the brain controls voice
Reading Time: 2 minutesBats are famous for their sonar-based navigation. They use their extremely sensitive hearing for orientation, emitting ultrasound noises and receiving an image of their surroundings based on the echo. Seba’s short-tailed bat (Carollia perspicillata), for example, finds the fruits that are its preferred food using this echolocation system. At the same time, bats also use […]
Young children get to know more about aedes and dengue
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY NEEVAARTHANA SUBRAMANIAM KUBANG KERIAN: Fifty children aged between five to six years old from KEMAS kindergartens around Kubang Kerian participated in a dengue awareness programme themed: ‘New Health Values for Society’. The event was organised by undergraduates and postgraduates from the School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM).[ihc-hide-content ihc_mb_type=”show” ihc_mb_who=”2,3,5″ ihc_mb_template=”1″ ] It […]