Chickens coming home to roost: Scientists and doctors behind Covid origins con face corruption invstigation, Fauci features as perpetrator
After the paper’s publication on March 17, 2020, Collins promoted the paper in the March 2020 edition of the NIH Director’s Blog. And on May 21, 2020, the NIH finalised a $1.88 million grant to Andersen and the Scripps Research Institute relating to pandemic preparedness in West Africa.
Starved of time for love and weighed down by books, how PhD students enjoy snatches of romance
Is lasting love more likely if you date only other scientists? How much should you talk about your research on a first date? Researchers lift the lid on their experiences of when science meets affairs of the heart. When Karen Arellano moved to Spain from Mexico in 2020 to start...
Nigeria food security: How water over-extraction, deforestation have created Africa’s hungriest nation
More than 80 per cent of Nigeria’s farmers are smallholder farmers, who account for 90 per cent of the country’s annual agricultural production. Some work their fields with little more than a piece of roughly carved wood and their bare hands.
Gold rush: How exposure to mercury, which causes irreversible brain damage and loss of vision, is a disaster in Senegal
A 2018 Duke University-led study found mercury levels in soils, sediments and water near artisanal gold mining villages in southeastern Senegal that exceeded safety thresholds set by the World Health Organization and US Environmental Protection Agency by 10 to 100 times.
Kenya’s livestock agency steps up pig breeding to meet demand for piglets as pork consumption spikes
The head of pig rearing section at Naivasha Dairy Institute McDonald Githinji says so far the institute has researched and come up with four main breeds of pigs which they are now recommending to the farmers for better productivity.
Football tactics experience boom as long throw-ins become common in English Premier League
The composition of a club’s squad, their aerial ability and suitability to defend on the transition – in case the arriving ball is lost to the opposition – are crucial factors that determine a team’s tactical decisions. Most importantly, you need to have a player who can launch throws into the penalty area from that zone.
Beauty and the Beast: Kenya battles poisonous cosmetics as women constitute burgeoning market
According to the KEBS website, some of the skin lightening products include Jaribu Skin Lightening Lotion, Amira Skin Lightening Lotion, A3 Cleartouch Complexion Lotion, Fair White Body Clearing Milk and Precieux Treatment Beauty Lotion, Movate, Jaribu, Rico, Miki, Mekako, Tura, Fair lady, and Jambo.
Study finds adults exposed to chemicals used in food packaging, cosmetics and printed receipts suffer memory loss and cognitive decline
Using data from nearly 900 US adults with an average age of 69, researchers found that combined exposure to phenols, parabens and especially phthalates (PAEs) was linked to lower scores on standard tests of brain function, particularly among men.
‘A scientist walked outside to have lunch with a girlfriend’ and leaked Covid from lab,’ Trump jokes as he pauses gain-of-function research funding
Critics argue that it has a “dual-use” potential, as the pathogens can be used for bioweapons research and development. The question of Covid-19 origins has largely become a partisan debate that sees it as either a natural spill-over or a lab leak – although other researchers argue it could have been an intentional leak, or that there was no pandemic virus.
Think about us too: Over 500,00 people in Daadab Refugee Camp in Kenya petition US President Trump to rethink aid freeze
Siyad Tawane, another refugee at the same camp, regretted that several health facilities are on the verge of closure as a result of the USAID funding freeze.
