[ad_1] For more than 50 years, Born in Great Britain paleoanthropologist Meave leakey has been unearthing fossils of our earliest ancestors in Kenya Turkana Basin. His discoveries have changed the way we think about our origins. Rather than an orderly progression from ape to human, his work suggests different prehuman …
Read More »Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa exceed 2.04 million and death toll nearing 49,100 – Africa CDC
[ad_1] ADDIS ABABA, Nov.21 (Xinhua) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 2,043,462, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) said on Tuesday. The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll related to the pandemic …
Read More »SpaceX will have people living in glass domes on Mars, before terraforming
[ad_1] Science fiction movies have already shown us what life might look like on other planets, but Elon Musk is determined to make space colonization a reality. Mars will have a human colony during our lifetime. Earlier this week, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla took to Twitter to answer …
Read More »Ethiopia Considers PPP Plan to Build First Communications Satellite
[ad_1] The Ethiopian government is considering a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) to build its first communications satellite that is expected to cost more than USD 350 million. Talking to The reporter On Wednesday, November 18, 2020, the director of the Ethiopian Institute of Space Science Technology, Abdissa Yilma, reiterated the government’s …
Read More »Lancaster University to help control the spread of the invasive malaria mosquito
[ad_1] reviewed by Emily Henderson, Bachelor of Science20 november 2020 Lancaster University is involved in a major research project that aims to control the spread of an invasive malaria mosquito in Sudan and Ethiopia. According to the World Health Organization, there were 228 million cases of malaria in 2018. The …
Read More »Framework for Historic Debt Relief Agreed by G20 Finance Ministers
[ad_1] 02:17 The G20 finance ministers agreed for the first time on a new joint framework for the restructuring of public debt. More discussion is expected at the group’s leaders’ summit on November 21-22. The coronavirus crisis has exacerbated economic problems in countries that were already struggling with a high …
Read More »How Ethiopia’s Ethnic Power Politics Led To The Tigray Conflict – Quartz
[ad_1] For three years, between 2015 and early 2018, there were popular protests in Ethiopia, but particularly in the two largest regions of the country: Oromia and Amhara. Popular unrest was fueled by the 27-year marginalization of most ethnic groups, massive corruption that bankrupted the state, and a federal ethnic …
Read More »The United States to Close the Famous Arecibo Space Telescope in the Jungle of Puerto Rico | Sciences
[ad_1] A huge American space telescope located deep in the Puerto Rican jungle is shutting down after suffering two destructive mishaps in recent months, ending 57 years of astronomical discoveries. Operations at the Arecibo observatory, one of the largest in the world, came to a halt in August when one …
Read More »Faced with the collapse, the famous Arecibo Observatory will be demolished
[ad_1] The world famous Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, known for helping scientists scan deep space and listen to distant radio waves, will be dismantled and demolished after engineers concluded that the facility’s structure is at risk of collapse. While teams will attempt to salvage parts of the observatory, the …
Read More »Researchers Identify Three Drugs That Could Be Reused for COVID-19
[ad_1] Candidates were screened for their similarity to hydroxychloroquine and their efficacy against SARS-CoV-2 was evaluated. in vitro. Researchers have identified three drugs approved for human use that could be reused as therapies for COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Based on your virtual and in vitro Antiviral …
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