A Modest Proposal : Let's Outsource The Entire US Defense Effort To China !
Forbes
America's dependence on China grows by the day. The latest news is that the Pentagon has had to lease a Chinese satellite to handle communications with U.S. military bases in Africa. Surprising, isn't ... McCain and Toohey were referring in particular ...

Scientists Must Engage in Politics to Influence Policies
AllAfrica.com
Emerging human, animal and crop diseases coupled with climate change and challenges of the information society can only make meaning in scientific research. Though science transcends politics, it is largely controlled by prevailing political realities ...

and more »

Aljazeera.com
Bring on the bugs
Aljazeera.com
Dawn Starin is an honorary research associate at University College London and has spent decades conducting anthropological and ecological research in Africa and Asia. ... Typical Western repugnance of entomophagy is cultural rather than scientific or ...

Ghana Business News
Africa yet to add capital value to electricity sector – Prof Aryeetey
Ghana Business News
... of Ghana Vice Chancellor. Africa had not added per capital value to the electricity sector for the past 30 years, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Legon said on Friday. ... Prof Aryeetey called for ...

and more »

IPPmedia
NEXTGEN cassava project sets precedent for open access data sharing in ...
IPPmedia
Six months after the launch of the $25.2M NEXTGEN Cassava project at Cornell University, scientists on the project have released Cassavabase, a database that promotes open access data sharing. ... The benefits of open data sharing through Cassavabase ...

Africa Has Not Added Value To The Electricity Sector-Prof Aryeetey
Ghana
Africa had not added per capital value to the electricity sector for the past 30 years, Professor Ernest Aryeetey, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana (UG), Legon said yesterday. He added that, mismanagement and heavy subsidy had contributed to ...

and more »

It really is monkey-see, monkey-do, research shows
Record-Searchlight
This photo taken in 2012, provided by the Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution Scottish Primate Research Group and the journal Science shows monkeys from Noha group feeding on pink-dyed corn in South Africa. Some wild animals seem to ...

The Guardian
Weatherwatch: How climate science can save lives
The Guardian
Cornforth wanted to ensure that the latest climate science was used to make a difference on the ground, so she set up the Africa Climate Exchange (AfClix), to find ways of communicating useful weather data to communities in need. In Senegal AfClix ...

Human ancestors had taste for meat, brains
Science News
A few East African sites dating to as early as 3.4 million years ago had previously produced small numbers of animal bones bearing butchery marks made by stone tools. Scientists think those bones indicate occasional meat eating (SN: 9/11/10, p. 8).

3D Car Shows
TOYOTA ENVIRO OUTREACH SCIENTISTS DISCOVER NEW SPECIES OF ...
3D Car Shows
Highlight of the 2013 Toyota Enviro Outreach, the fifth in the annual scientific study programme that seeks to safeguard South Africa's natural wealth and reduce biodiversity loss, was the discovery of a rare species of plant last seen seven years ago ...

Celebrating 100 years of Biodiversity Science at Kirstenbosch - Bizcommunity.com
Bizcommunity.com
The science undertaken by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) underpins many of the plans and decisions taken in South Africa. ... The goal of Biodiversity Day activities is to unpack the scientific mysteries of biodiversity and ...

Here Comes the Buzz
New York Times
IT may not be as grand as the wildebeest migrations across Africa's eastern savanna or the march of emperor penguins across miles of Antarctic ice to their inland nesting areas. But it is a ... (Another theory about the evolution of their long life ...

and more »

Calgary Zoo animal behaviourist steps into the wild to save endangered ...
Globe and Mail
Perhaps 100 are left in the wild, but Dr. Veasey, who became the zoo's director of animal care, conservation and research in 2010, is aiming to get an accurate count, and from that, develop local conservation programs. The African-based Bongo ...

Globe and Mail
Calgary Zoo vet steps into the wild to save Africa's endangered mountain bongo
Globe and Mail
Perhaps 100 are left in the wild, but Dr. Veasey, who became the zoo's director of animal care, conservation and research in 2010, is aiming to get an accurate count, and from that, develop local conservation programs. The African-based Bongo ...

and more »

BBC News
'Green wall' to target Sahel terrorism
BBC News
The project has been a pipedream in Africa since the eighties, when the idea of fighting desertification by planting a "wall of trees" across the continent first gained traction. At 7,775km (4,831 miles) long and 15km (nine miles) the Great Green Wall ...

Science Codex
Fires in West Africa
Science Codex
Farmers often use fire to return nutrients to the soil and to clear the ground of unwanted plants. While fire helps enhance crops and grasses for pasture, the fires also produce smoke that degrades air quality. In West Africa, the agricultural burning ...

and more »

Cretaceous Period: Facts About Animals, Plants & Climate
LiveScience.com
Tyrannosaurus rex is part of the carnivorous groups of dinosaurs that, according to new research, maintained a stable level of biodiversity leading up to the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. CREDIT: AMNH/J. Brougham ... Africa and South ...

NPR (blog)
Ratting Out TB: Scientists Train Rodents To Diagnose Disease
NPR (blog)
So chemist Negussie Beyene and his team in Tanzania have been teaching African giant pouched rats to identify the disease by sniffing a patient's sputum. The team ... The rate increases to about 80 percent when two or three animals are put on the task.

and more »

Mars, Inc. and partners offer genome data to the public
Candy Industry
This data, basically the sequence, assembly and annotation of a crop's genome, can then be used by scientists, plant breeders and farmers to more rapidly improve the nutrition of Africa's children. “Orphan crops” refers to African food crops and tree ...

Biotechnology: Africa and Asia need a rational debate on GM crops
Nature.com
Genetic modification also offers a way to incorporate multiple traits into a plant, and to do so faster than is possible through conventional breeding. Take cassava, for instance, a staple crop for millions of people in Africa. Two viral diseases ...