By James Jeffrey, Aljazeera ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — When Eyoas Ergetu was a child, he became interested in space science but couldn’t find anywhere to study it. He went on to become a mechanical engineering graduate student at Addis Ababa University, where he studies. And, now 24, he has managed to find an outlet for his thwarted celestial
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By: Mawuna Remarque KOUTONIN, Silicon Africa When tourists visit sub-Saharan Africa, they often wonder “Why there are no historical buildings or monuments?” The reason is simple. Europeans have destroyed most of them. We have only left drawings and descriptions by travelers who have visited the places before the destructions. In some places, ruins are still visible. Many
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By Dylan Matthews , VOX You’re probably aware that heart disease and cancer are far and away the leading causes of death in America. But globally the picture is more complicated: (Vox / Anand Katakam and Joss Fong) The above map shows the leading cause of lost years of life by country (click to see a larger version).
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By Michelle Roberts Other researchers have been testing bats in West Africa for Ebola virus The Ebola victim who is believed to have triggered the current outbreak – a two-year-old boy called Emile Ouamouno from Guinea – may have been infected by playing in a hollow tree housing a colony of bats, say scientists. They
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BY AMY MAXMEN , NewsWeek A woman stands in front of a plantation of Enset, a plant that collects water and is essential during the dry season. IVA ZIMOVA/PANOS Dibaabish Jaboo kneads the pale, vegetative flesh of the enset plant, like her mother did, like her granddaughters do. When she’s finished, she bundles the plant’s thick, decomposing
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By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC Ebola virus Testing kit A 15-minute blood and saliva test for Ebola is to be trialled in Guinea, it has been announced. The solar-powered, portable laboratory should deliver results six times faster than tests currently used in West Africa. The researchers involved say faster diagnosis would increase the chances
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By Evan Andrews Johanson poses with Lucy’s skull at an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, museum on May 7, 2013. (Credit: Jenny Vaughan/AFP/Getty Images) While hunting for fossils in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle on November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray stumbled upon the partial remains of a previously unknown species of ape-like hominid.
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Donald Johanson recalls pivotal discovery of A. afarensis fossil in 1974 Donald Johanson is always looking at the ground. “I find more quarters by parking meters than anybody I know,” he says. As he was looking at the ground four decades ago, in a region called Hadar, named for a dry riverbed in Ethiopia, he
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By Alice Park @aliceparkny “We’re removing the doorway that HIV uses to get into cells” (Time)- Natural immunity is the most reliable way to protect yourself from viruses, bacteria and parasites. And the best way to acquire such immunity, in most cases, is to expose your immune system to the bug in question—either by getting
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(IflScience)- Certain hoaxes, like the one claimingMars will look as big as the moon, keep getting circulated year after year, despite being debunked repeatedly. Another such hogwash claim states that NASA predicted a global blackout in Decemberthat will last for three days due to alignment of the universe. Supposedly, the events would temporarily cause our planet
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