The Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa, NEISA, 2025, has been held in Kigali, Rwanda. The summit, held to stimulate the adoption of peaceful nuclear energy in Africa, took place from June 30 to July 1, 2025. International Atomic Energy Read More …
The orbit of the Earth around the Sun is elliptical, not circular, in shape. If it were circular and the Sun is at the centre, the distance from the Earth to the Sun will never change. But, it is elliptical Read More …
Ax-4, Axiom’s fourth crewed flight to the International Space Station, ISS, was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on June 25, 2025. It was earlier scheduled for June 11, but a liquid oxygen leak in the booster delayed the Read More …
Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire in the morning of 24 June, 2025, after President Donald Trump authorized the use of bunker-buster bombs by B-2 Stealth bombers on the Uranium enrichment sites in Natanz, Fordow and Esfahan in Iran. Read More …
Lab-grown meat is meat grown from an animal’s (stem) cells in a laboratory. Cells come together to form tissues in higher animals, and tissues come together to form organs, and organs form systems which make up the organism. Cells are Read More …
Pope Leo XIV was elected by the College of Cardinals to succeed late Pope Francis as the successor of Saint Peter the Apostle on May 8, 2025. He is the 267th Pope. He was born Robert Francis Prevost to Louis Read More …
Who wins in a fight to death between 100 unarmed men against one silverback gorilla? This has been a topic of debate of great interest with about half the respondents favouring the silverback and the other half favouring the men. Read More …
When there was no university in Nigeria, Chike Obi read from home in Onitsha, southeast Nigeria, for a first degree and Master’s degree in Mathematics from the University of London. The first university in Nigeria, University of Ibadan, started as Read More …
Nigeria’s nuclear regulator is the Nigerian Nuclear Regulatory Authority, NNRA. It was created by the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Act (Act 19) of 1995, but it came into being in May, 2001. The pioneer Director-General was Professor Shamsideen B. Read More …
Shabani, this silverback, is considered the ‘most handsome’ gorilla in the world. Shabani is considered a symbol of how a handsome man should look like by Japanese women who call him “Ikeme” or handsome guy and flock in hundreds to Read More …
