Les médecins s'inquiètent de la hausse alarmante du nombre de cas de cancers du colon chez les patients de moins de 50 ans. Bien que le cancer colorectal soit plus fréquent chez les personnes agées, il touche désormais de plus en plus de jeunes adultes, comme l'explique Ning Jin, oncologue et chercheuse à l'Université de l'Ohio : "Des études récent...
Исследовательская группа, состоящая из египетских и американских археологов, раскопала верхнюю часть огромной статуи правителя, который был известен как Рамзес Великий, третий фараон 19-й династии. Он правил Древним Египтом с 1279 по 1213 год до нашей эры. Международная команда исследователей сделала в Египте поистине огромную находку, раскопав око...
Группа экспертов из южноафриканского Университета Нельсона Манделы опубликовала в журнале Ichnos результаты уникальной находки, сделанной на побережье Южной Африки. Археологи обнаружили окаменелые отпечатки ног, оставленные древними жителями 70-130 тысяч лет назад. Ученых удивило то, что это были не следы босых ног, как это обычно бывает. Напротив,...
Исследователи из Университета Техаса в Эль-Пасо более месяца провели в тропических лесах Демократической Республики Конго, ища редкую птицу желтоголового багадаиса (Prionops alberti), которая была названа в честь короля Бельгии Альберта I (1875—1934), поскольку в момент ее открытия страна называлась Бельгийское Конго.Орнитологи отмечали, что этот в...
Une agence américaine du travail a accusé SpaceX d'avoir illégalement licencié des employés qui avaient écrit une lettre ouverte critiquant le PDG Elon Musk et d'avoir donné l'impression que les activités des travailleurs étaient surveillées par la société de fusées. Un directeur régional du National Labor Relations Board, basé à Los Angeles, a dép...
Egypt's space agency chief has hailed cooperation with China in the field of space technologies, following the launch on Monday of a remote-sensing satellite into orbit from a launch centre in northwest China. In an interview with the China Global Television Network (CGTN), Sherif Sedky, CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA), said that China has ...
Первые мумии в Древнем Египте могли появиться примерно за 3,6 тысячи лет до возведения первых пирамид (2667 год до нашей эры). Об этом сообщает Journal of Archaeological Science со ссылкой на выводы ученых из Йоркского университета. Ученые обнаружили остатки материалов для оборачивания мумий на кладбище Мостагедды в 320 километрах к югу от Каира. Н...
In a transformative effort to address the persistent issue of insufficient electricity in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Chinese companies, particularly Sinohydro, have played a pivotal role in constructing the Zongo II Hydroelectric Power Plant. With an impressive installed capacity of 150 megawatts, the pow...
Nigeria's Foreign minister welcomed his US counterpart in Abuja, on Tuesday (Jan. 23). Yusuf Tuggar tweeted Anthony Blinken's visit focused enhancing trade relations and deepening democracy in West Africa. Nigerian president Bola Tinubu held discussions with the US secretary of state ahead of a press conference. The US top diplomat said Niger...
Cameroon recently launched a vaccination program against malaria to help eliminate the strain the disease has heaped on its health system. This move marks a significant milestone in the West African country given how prevalent the disease has been in the region. The launch of the vaccination program began today. Cameroon launches milestone ma...
Cameroon will be the first country to routinely give children a new malaria vaccine as the shots are rolled out in Africa. The campaign due to start Monday was described by officials as a milestone in the decades-long effort to curb the mosquito-spread disease on the continent, which accounts for 95% of the world's malaria deaths. "The vaccin...
In a quiet neighborhood in Kenya, Faith Wanjiku, a trained assistant nurse, diligently attends to her patient, 85-year-old Teresa Mukhovi. Teresa is battling dementia, hypertension, and diabetes, and her daughter Petronilla has been her primary caregiver for the past two years. Petronilla, however, found conventional hospital care financially...
According to Elon Musk, the first human received an implant from his computer-brain interface company Neuralink over the weekend. In a Monday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, Musk said that the patient received the implant the day prior and was "recovering well." He added that "initial results show promising neuron spike detection...
For over ten years, a former gang leader from the Los Angeles area has consistently admitted to orchestrating the murder of the renowned hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur in 1996. Prosecutors in Las Vegas argued on Thursday that these admissions, made by Duane "Keffe D" Davis, serve as compelling evidence to oppose his release to house arrest befor...
By Prof (Dr) Ratnesh Dwivedi, Awarded Academic & Foreign Correspondent, India Адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. Для просмотра адреса в вашем браузере должен быть включен Javascript. The Vedas were always respected and the learned men always passed in on to the next generation but at the same time more layers of knowledge appeared for the sake of making the high and abstract knowledge available to...
Storm clouds are finally gathering over Zimbabwe's biggest animal reserve, but it has come too late for more than 110 elephants that have died in a searing, extended drought. There is little that Simba Marozva and other rangers at the Hwange National Park can do except cut the tusks off the rotting corpses before poachers find them. With the ...
The Zambian authorities announced on Thursday that they were stepping up their health campaign to combat cholera, a disease that has been on the rise since October and has already claimed the lives of nearly a hundred people in the southern African country this year. The Minister of Health, Sylvia Masebo, called for more drastic hygiene measu...
Mbongeni Ngema, author of the musical "Sarafina" about student revolts in apartheid-era Soweto, died Wednesday in a road accident at the age of 68, his family announced. "It is with a heavy heart that we announce the brutal death of our beloved brother, father, husband, and compatriot, Mbongeni Ngema," the family announced in a statement, say...
The year 2023 has witnessed significant strides in the fight against malaria and Alzheimer's disease, marking a continued commitment to health and scientific progress despite the presumed end of the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported by the World Health Organization. New vaccines are being rolled out globally to combat seemingly incurable disease...
Bad weather on Sunday left four people dead and around twenty missing in South Kivu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, when a building was swept away by a swollen river, the authorities said on Monday. The accident occurred in a rural mining area in the Mwenga territory. In heavy rain, local residents, small-scale miners, shopk...
