Miss America 2023, Grace Stanke, a Nuclear Engineering student in University of Wisconsin, Madison, is spearheading the campaign that nuclear energy is a cleaner source of energy than fossil fuels. The 20-year old who is also Miss Wisconsin is the Read More …
A 15-year-old Nigerian schoolgirl, Faith Odunsi, from Ijebu, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, has won the Global Open Mathematics Tournament 2021. She defeated other contestants from America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa to win in the senior category. Countries like US, Read More …
World Athletics, the global governing body for track and field, banned transgender female athletes who started their transitioning after puberty from competitions as from 31 March, 2023. The President, Sebastian Coe, announced this after the council voted in favour of Read More …
Nigeria’s Science, Technology and Innovation Expo, STI Expo, held from 14 to 18 March, 2022 in Eagle Square, Abuja. This year’s theme is “Sustaining National Economic Growth through STI.” The three winners of the Young Nigeria Scientists’ Competition – Maryam Ogunbayo Read More …
Why do things fall on Earth? The English scientist, Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727), who was reputed for becoming Professor of Mathematics in Cambridge at the age of 26 years was sitting under an apple tree, in a contemplative mood, and Read More …
It took Dr Nick Axten 52 years to complete his PhD. He started in 1970 at the University of Pittsburgh in US with a Fullbright scholarship in Mathematical Sociology. He however, abandoned the programme five years after and travelled back 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 …
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 …
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 …
