Reef
Fish Tune in to Noise when House Hunting
08/04/05
Silence is not golden for young fish that
prefer to call home a reef situated in a noisy locale. Between shrimp clacking
their claws, the grinding of teeth and other fishy sounds, reefs can be noisy
places, and juvenile fish returning from the open ocean gravitate to the din,
according to a study published in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
Source:
Environmental News Network
Libya
Aims to Shine as Star of African Science
08/04/05
John Bohannon reports on Libyan ambitions to
lead scientific excellence in Africa.
Source:
Science
Will
DNA Profiling Fuel Prejudice?
08/04/05
Keeping samples taken from innocent people help
to catch more criminals, but civil liberties may be the price.
Source:
New Scientist
Non-Acoustic
Sensors Detect Speech Without Sound
09/04/05
The US is working on a system to replace
conventional microphones and instead detect speech via the speaker's nerve and
muscle activity.
Source:
New Scientist
R&D
Policy Is Essential For Effective Science
11/04/05
Boosting the role of science and technology in
development requires much more than increased spending on research. A new
SciDev.Net dossier gives a comprehensive introduction to the issues at stake.
Source:
SciDev.net
Fighting
Disease
12/04/05
Fifty years to the day since the discovery of a
polio vaccine, the world is still not free of the disease.
Source:
BBC News
U.N.
Meeting Tackles 'Silent Humanitarian Crisis'
12/04/05
A high-level U.N. meeting is trying to tackle
what a senior U.N. official called the world's "silent humanitarian
crisis" — dirty water, poor sanitation and slums.
Source:
Environmental News Network
DNA
Project to Trace Human Steps
13/04/05
A major project spanning five continents aims
to map the history of human migration through DNA.
Source:
BBC News
PanAfrica:
Nearly Two Dozen African Countries Will Need Food Aid Because of Weather,
Instability - UN
13/04/05
Nearly two dozen sub-Saharan African countries
will need food aid later this year because of conflicts, population
displacement, economic disruption, bad weather and the impact on farm workers of
the HIV pandemic, the United Nations agricultural agency says in a new report.
Source:
AllAfrica.com
Drug
'Beats Family Breast Cancer'
13/04/05
Scientists believe they have found a new way to
fight breast cancers that run in families. The experimental drug fights tumors
linked to two faulty genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are known to increase a
woman's breast cancer risk by 50-80%.
Source:
BBC News
PanAfrica:
Number of Traumatised People Rising in Africa, Forum Told
13/04/05
Social workers attending an African forum in
Nairobi yesterday expressed concern over what they termed an increasing number
of traumatized people on the continent.
Source:
AllAfrica.com
Space
Shuttle Set for Fuel Tank Test
14/04/05
Space shuttle Discovery was on schedule to be
filled with a half-million gallons of cryogenic propellants on Thursday to test
redesigns of the shuttle fuel tank ordered after the 2003 Columbia shuttle
disaster.
Source:
Reuters.com
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