There are many methods used in weather modification. In Cloud-seeding, which has been used since 1923 in USA, the clouds are sprayed with chemicals like Silver Iodide or salt solutions by airplanes or rockets to induce rain. Dry ice is Read More …
South Africa is inviting bids in March, 2024, for the construction of a 2,500 mw nuclear power plant for electricity generation. The country has Africa’s only nuclear power station with two reactors in Koeberg, producing 1,900 mw of South Africa’s Read More …
A software glitch has caused the greatest miscarriage of justice in modern British judicial system. The Post Office scandal caused by a fault in the computer software, Horizon, reported shortfalls in revenues from 1999 to 2015 as a result of Read More …
Radiation is energy from any source travelling through space or some material. It can be in the form of light, heat or sound. It can also be in the form of radioactivity or emissions from unstable atoms giving off some Read More …
SpaceX’s Starlink internet services have taken-off in Nigeria. This is shortly after the country’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami’s assurance that the services will soon start in the country. A software engineer in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria, Bello Read More …
There were great expectations, especially in the science and technology sector, as Bola Ahmed Tinubu was sworn in as President of Nigeria on 29 May, 2023. Born 29 March, 1952, President Tinubu has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Read More …
A Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) applies heat from a controlled nuclear chain reaction – in the Core of its reactor – to produce steam which drives its turbine and generates electricity. The government of Nigeria approved a nuclear framework for Read More …
Nuclear phobia following the threat of non-peaceful or military use of nuclear energy is understandable; but it, inevitably, leads to problems and obscures the benefits that there may be from the peaceful use of this type of energy. Interestingly, Read More …
Afshin Esmaeil Ghadzerzadeh, born on 13 July, 2002 in Bukan County, West Azerbaijan, Iran, in December, 2022 emerged the shortest man in the world, alive. He is 65.24 centimetres (2 feet, 1.6 inches) tall. He is almost 7 cm (2.7 Read More …
New Zealand has passed legislation against cigarette sale to persons born on, or after, January 1, 2009. The bill was passed by 76 legislators while 43 opposed it. The date of passage is 13 December, 2022 and it comes into Read More …
