Science World celebrates Professor Sunday Jonah, Director and Research Professor, Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, on his emerging the most cited staff of the university for 2023. Sunday Jonah as Professor of Nuclear Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
China’s most powerful rocket, the Long March-5B Y3 rocket, used to launch Mengtian laboratory, the final module for Tiangong Space Station, on 31 October, 2022 has made an uncontrolled re-entry to Earth. It crashed into the Southcentral Pacific Ocean about Read More …
This giant tortoise specie, Chelonoidis phantasticus, thought to have gone extinct 100 years ago, is still alive, It was found in Fernandia Island in the Galapagos in 2019. DNA tests on this specimen believed to be 80 to 100 years Read More …
The most popular peaceful use of nuclear energy is arguably, in electricity generation. Nigeria requires 25,000 to 30,000 mw of electricity for any meaningful economic development. Total output has been about 3,700 mw from total grid capacity of 6,000 mw. Read More …
South Korea has launched its first fully domestically produced space rocket. The three-stage rocket, KSLV-II Nuri, was launched at the Naro Space Centre, Goheung, on 21 October, 2021 (09:00 WAT), with the intention of putting a 1.5-tonne payload into a Read More …
The Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, visited President Vladimir Putin on 11 October, 2022 to discuss protection of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amidst the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Grossi is seeking for a nuclear safety Read More …
