Cairo to host next world science journalists' conference
An African country is to host the World Conference of Science Journalists for the first time.
3 July 2009 | EN
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An African country is to host the World Conference of Science Journalists for the first time.
3 July 2009 | EN
The leaders of open access schemes have claimed partial credit for the dramatic rise in developing world research output.
3 July 2009 | EN
African science is unlikely to be prioritised at next month's G8 meeting but the fault also rests with African nations, say critics.
Source: Nature
2 July 2009 | EN
A new US$49 million initiative aims to strengthen health research capacity across Africa — and will put African researchers in charge.
2 July 2009 | EN
A new treatment for sleeping sickness, researchers find a way to detect malaria in pregnant women, Africa develops its biotechnology agenda, and more.
1 July 2009 | EN
Laborious treatments for river blindness could be simplified if a drug entering final stage clinical trials is effective.
1 July 2009 | EN
A nomination by US president Barack Obama has the potential to strengthen his country's relations with the developing world.
A round-up of articles about resistance to the Tamiflu drug; the first swine flu vaccines and who is the most vulnerable.
Bangladeshi scientists have used climate modelling to show that global warming will halve rice yields over the next 60 years.
29 June 2009 | EN
Aims to boost Africa's weather forecasting are taking advantage of its mobile phone infrastructure to mount weather stations on masts.
Source: BBC Online / UN News Centre
29 June 2009 | EN
Despite a difficult financial climate in Pakistan, the government has increased funding for science by a quarter.
29 June 2009 | EN
A new study says that Guatemalan women need free, informed access to contraceptive methods to avoid unsafe abortions.
29 June 2009 | ES
Malawi's newly re-elected president has plans for science and technology, including a new commission to coordinate research.
26 June 2009 | EN
Studies in maize show that benign strains of the fungus Aspergillus can outcompete toxic forms that contaminate African crops.
26 June 2009 | EN
Despite national prevention programmes, a study has found that shared syringes are the most common mode of HIV transmission in Puerto Rico.
25 June 2009 | ES
Poor countries may become more open to sharing seeds now that a fund to support their crop protection efforts has been agreed.
Biofuels from both food and non-food crops will be produced as a result of a research collaboration involving Brazil, Egypt and Sudan.
A study has found that women between the ages of 24 and 45 years old can benefit from a vaccine that protects against the virus responsible for cervical cancer.
24 June 2009 | ES
A GM mosquito is being tested for dengue control, Nepal boosts scientist–farmer collaboration, a new source of biodiesel is found and more.
24 June 2009 | EN
A simple HIV test could remove the obstacles to treating HIV-positive babies in their first year, say scientists.