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Dr Rose Gidado, Scientist and Country Coordinator, Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB), in Africa, Nigeria Chapter, has said that to attain food security Nigeria should bring in and localise technologies.She said Nigeria…

Prof. Ravindra Gupta, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University College, London, on Saturday, said there was hope for HIV cure in the near future.Gupta, who said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja,…

Joint researchers from the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute and  the Netherlands revealed on Tuesday identified hundreds of new genes associated with intelligence.The authors said as well as the 939 new “smart genes’’ were…

A researcher at the University of Queensland, Dr. Maggy Sikulu-Lord, on Thursday, revealed that scientists have discovered an inexpensive tool that could efficiently and effectively identify mosquitoes infected with the dangerous Zika…

David Goodall, a 104-year-old Australian scientist traveled to Switzerland on Thursday to end his life via assisted suicide, a Swiss foundation said.Euthanasia is illegal in David's country and he had been barred from ending his life in…

Sam Altman A billionaire, American entrepreneur, investor, computer programmer and blogger, , has paid to have his brain chemically frozen when he dies and thus bestow eternal consciousness on him.Altman, is the president of Y…

At the University of Oxford, a PHD student David Nadlinger is being celebrated in the world of science photography for being the first person ever to capture a single, floating atom with an ordinary camera.Using long exposure, the…

Dr Sven-Thore Holm, a Swedish scientist, has said that the on-going science park project at University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) will enable young Nigerians to think creatively and differently to create jobs.Holm, currently consulting…