Yuan Longpin, widely known as the”father of hybrid rice” for his pioneering work in developing high-yielding rice varieties in the 1970’s, has died. He did this by cross-breeding wild varieties of rice with domesticated ones and significantly increasing the hybrid Read More …
A magnitude 4.9 earthquake has hit the Congo-Rwanda border, heightening fears of another volcanic eruption in Mount Nyiragongo. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake took place 10:03 WAT on 25 May, 2021 about 12 miles, northeast of Goma city. Read More …
The non-peaceful or military use of nuclear energy as a weapon of mass destruction has created nuclear phobia in many people’s mind, and understandably so. The second atomic bomb ending World War 11 killed or injured 70,000 people in Nagasaki Read More …
Scientists from the University of Florida successfully grew plants in Moon regolith or soil collected from the Moon. Regolith on the Moon or Mars differs from soil on Earth because it is made up of mainly silicate mineral, that is Read More …
On 6 May, 2022 by 05:42 ET, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink broadband internet satellites from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, using the Falcon 9 rocket. The launch lit-up the early morning sky over the launch site. Sunlight reflecting off the Read More …
Some writers have referred to King Charles III who was crowned as King of England on 6 May, 2023 as Climate King because of his reported love for nature. At 21 years old in 1969, he wrote Prime Minister Harold Read More …
The female Giant Panda named Ya Ya, which lived 20 years in a Memphis Zoo in United States, has been returned to China. It arrived Shanghai on 27 April, 2023 after a 16-hour flight and is on quarantine for 30 Read More …
The Director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency says Russian forces’ withdrawal from the decommissioned Chernobyl nuclear power plant is “a step in the right direction.” Rafael Mariano Grossi headed a support mission to Chernobyl on 26 April, 2022. Chernobyl Read More …
The nuclear security workshop in Nigeria formerly planned for 25 April to 6 May, 2022 held on 23 May to 3 June, 2022. The venue was the Auditorium, Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna Read More …
Morocco’s Triga Mark 11 Reactor has joined the Internet Reactor Laboratory project in the Centre for Energy Research and Training, CERT, Nigeria. This was on 11 April, 2023 and broadens the capacity-building network in nuclear reactors using the internet in Read More …
