Uganda: Nation Could Become Regional Rice Exporter say Researchers
AllAfrica.com
Under Japan's African Development initiative it also launched the Coalition for African Rice Development. It is a research collaboration on rice whose goal ...

Daily Mail
Tiniest creatures defend trees
UPI.com
2 (UPI) -- Researchers say one of Africa's smallest creatures -- the ant -- is up to the job of protecting trees from one of the continent's largest animals ...
Ants protect trees from elephantsBBC News
Elephants are NOT afraid of mice (but they are terrified by ants)Daily Mail
Tiny ant bodyguards keep massive elephants at bayEurekAlert (press release)
Scientist (blog) -Eureka! Science News -Discover Magazine (blog)
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Forging ahead despite bureaucratic hurdles
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
“DRA used to be able to brag that it could build a process plant more cheaply in Zimbabwe than it could in South Africa, but this is no longer the case,” ...

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A brief look at SA's coal-mining industry
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
Research is under way in South Africa to determine the feasibility of CCS. The South African National Energy Research Institute has established the Centre ...
Power Generation and Synthetic Fuels Boost the South African Coal Mining ...Newswire Today (press release)

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Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
An Evening for African Predators at Blank Park Zoo
Zoo and Aquarium Visitor News
Proceeds raised will benefit the African Predator Conservation Research Organization. The Blank Park Zoo, Iowa's WILDEST Adventure, is open every day ...

$3.3 million in grants aims to improve farming in Africa
ECNmag.com
Two Cornell-based research projects -- one that boosts the soil-building effects of biochar for plants and another that harnesses ...

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MedIndia
Novartis Malaria Drug May Yield First New Treatment in 30 Years
Bloomberg
The drug is the result of more than three years of work by almost 30 scientists in five countries. Researchers at a Novartis lab in San Diego sifted through ...
Promising new one-dose malaria drug discoveredAFP

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StarAfrica.com
21% of Africa's freshwater plants and animals threatened
Mongabay.com
21 percent of African freshwater plant and animal species are threatened with extinction, according to a five year assessment of 5167 freshwater species by ...
African livelihoods at risk as species threatened: IUCNAFP

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Ancient Nubians Made Antibiotic Beer
Wired News
“I'm convinced that they had the science of fermentation under control and were purposely producing the drug.” “This discovery will provide a whole new ...

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GM, Toyota and Ford Gain in China
Wall Street Journal
The company is also building an engine plant in South Africa. Ford's Asian-Pacific and African markets span three continents: Australia, Asia and Africa. ...

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AIDS Cure Quest to Kill `Sleeping' Viruses Enlists Merck Cancer Medicine
Bloomberg
“We're all just trying to get our heads around the science, and trying to prove that in animal models these things have even a slight hope of working,” he ...

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Could New York City Handle a Hurricane?
LiveScience.com
Scientists have geologic evidence that other major hurricanes have hit the region in prehistory. One event, in 1821, offers a telling lesson. On Sept. ...

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China Day Ahead: Ping An, Shenzhen Bank Merger; Macau August Casino Take
Bloomberg
South Africa signed a memorandum of understanding with China to improve the African nation's railway services, the Department of Transport said. ...

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American Recycler Newspaper
Sequence of Jatropha genome completed for biofuel generation
American Recycler Newspaper
Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of life science solutions, and SG Biofuels, Inc., a bioenergy crop company, announced that they have completed ...

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Preview calendar: Special events, theme parks and comedy for Sept. 2-8
North County Times
San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park ---- "African Festival," celebrating the recent birth of three African elephant calves, runs through Sept. ...

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Tata Motors to focus on Russia, China, Africa to drive growth
Economic Times
Commenting on the integration of JLR (Jaguar-Land Rover) with Tata Motors, Tata said, "we will see the benefits of integrating the Research and Development ...

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Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle
BBC News
Ascension was an arid island, buffeted by dry trade winds from southern Africa. Devoid of trees at the time of Darwin and Hooker's visits, the little rain ...

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Discover Magazine (blog)
Do new discoveries ever “rewrite evolutionary history”?
Discover Magazine (blog)
If headlines are to be believed, phylogeny – the business of drawing family trees between different species – is an etch-a-sketch science. ...

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SEMBIOSYS ISSUED KEY U.S. PATENT FOR THE PRODUCTION OF APOLIPOPROTEINS IN PLANTS
PR Newswire (press release)
SemBioSys' Apo AI(Milano) is a des-1,2- variant of Apo AI(Milano) as previously described in scientific literature. SemBioSys is listed on the Toronto Stock ...

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Experts urge Ghanaians to use and apply modern biotechnology
Truth about Trade & Technology
Alhassan explained that biotechnology was like any technological application that used biological systems, living organisms to make or modify products. ...