…nanofilters to clean irrigation supplies and, eventually, make the water safe for drinking.Biodigestion, without nanofilters, is already used to treat sewage in both rural and urban areas. Embrapa is also…
…is memory, and perhaps it is just that … But what would be an invention without memory? And a decision without memory?” I conclude: a teaching without memory is a…
…upgrade that had already been approved. Cost calculations are still ongoing, but Stephenson hopes that the multi-bend achromats can be included without raising the upgrade budget much above US$391 million….
…in the world. Data taken from Lightsources.org. Following the completion of these new facilities, Africa will become the only habitable continent that is without a synchrotron source. Limited mostly by…
…strain, however, only the nanoantibiotic was effective. The next step was to test the effect on human kidney cells. The silver and silica nanoparticles without ampicillin proved highly toxic, while…
…remarkably resistant to high vacuum with a survival fraction of ((3.77 +/- 0.76) x 10-2), larger than the one of D. radiodurans ((1.13 +/- 0.23) x 10-2). The survival fraction…
…chemist preparing a Ph.D. at Perugia University (Italy), taking the centre stage in the experiments. As an Erasmus student, she worked for one year in Janssens’ research group in Antwerp,…
…R&D spend (compared to the 15–25% of R&D funds that most developed countries devote to basic science). And in the last ten years, the percentage spend on public institutions has…
…and other life-threatening diseases. There are almost 50 synchrotron light sources in 23 different countries around the world, but Africa is currently the only habitable continent without such a facility….
…from Antarctica, Africa remains the only continent without one. The effort will be modelled on a Middle East synchrotron which resulted from a landmark international collaboration. Prof Winick, an eminent…
