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Access to the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia will be free from mobile phones for Orange customers in Africa and the Middle East.
13 February 2012 | EN
Software applications, or apps, that help solve East African farmers' climate problems have received cash prizes in the Apps4Africa competition.
8 February 2012 | EN
Higher temperatures could decrease wheat yields by causing the crop to age prematurely.
8 February 2012 | EN
Engineers want the Rio+20 summit proposals to give more emphasis to the role engineering plays in driving sustainable development.
2 February 2012 | EN
Newly-developed software to monitor food prices of staple crops may help reduce volatility in food prices in many Sub-Saharan countries.
1 February 2012 | EN
Centre will enable semiconductor and electronics companies to achieve growth and raise exports.
31 January 2012 | EN
Thailand is investing in nanotechnology to help alleviate the impact of floods and other natural disasters.
25 January 2012 | EN
The key malaria drug, artemisinin, can now be produced in greater quantities ― from a waste material of the current production process.
23 January 2012 | EN
Jordan will coordinate a network linking researchers in seven Arab countries.
23 January 2012 | EN
Researchers have engineered microorganisms to break down the sugars in seaweed into ethanol, creating a potential new source of renewable fuel.
Japan is to help Vietnam develop a satellite programme to help combat the effects of climate change and natural disasters.
13 January 2012 | EN
Campaigners welcome plenty of science in the first draft of the planet's environmental negotiations, but say there are omissions.
Developing countries could prepare better for extreme weather events if they used more than one weather model, say scientists.
10 January 2012 | EN
A retrospective study of tweets on the 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti found them broadly as good as official data at predicting its progress.
Scientists have built a database for schistosomiasis in Africa, which they are putting forward as a model for a global neglected disease tool.
Science and tech played big roles in events such as the Arab Spring and tackling natural disasters ― but they struggled to be heard elsewhere.
An award-winning, rapid test for hepatitis C that uses gold nanoparticles could be especially useful in the Middle East and North Africa.
Africa's farmers need more extension workers, but new technologies could replace some services, a meeting has heard.
Indian Kashmir needs to prepare for a major temblor, going by new satellite data.
21 December 2011 | EN
An Eye on Earth Declaration and a set of Special Initiatives target next year’s major international conference on sustainable development.
Source: SciDev.Net Conference Service