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Linking capacity building activities to product development

Bio-Innovate has adopted this concept in conducting its capacity building activities. The Program is supporting both MSc and PhD students whose outputs...

Africa needs skills for SKA – scientist

African countries need more scientists for research on the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope to succeed, an official said in Pretoria on Monday. Head of astronomy at the National Research Foundation (NRF), Nithaya Chetty, said it was essential for the continent to start investing in human capacity development. Go to Source ...

Multi-junction solar cells come from just one compound

Materials scientists have found a way to create multi-junction solar cells that absorb different parts of the solar spectrum, but fabricated from just a single compound. Go to Source ...

South African daffodils may be a future cure for depression

Pharmaceutical research Scientists at the University of Copenhagen have previously documented that substances from the South African plant species Crinum and Cyrtanthus – akin to snowdrops and daffodils – have an effect on the mechanisms in the brain that are involved in depression. This research has now yielded further results, since a team based at the Faculty of...