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Credit: Victor Huertas FORT LAUDERDALE/DAVIE, Fla. - Global warming or climate change. It doesnt matter what you call it. What matters is that right now it is having a direct and dramatic effect on marine environments across our planet. "More immediately pressing than future climate change is the increasing frequency and severity of extreme underwater heatwaves that we are already seeing around the world today," Lauren Nadler, Ph.D., who is an assistant professor in Nova Southeastern University...

Make 2021 a Year of Science—Alliance for Science Ghana to Prez Akufo-Addo By Alliance for Science Ghana LISTEN JAN 19, 2021 We bring you warm regards and wishes of a happy New Year from Team Alliance for Science Ghana. We wish you an outstanding year in which all your hopes and aspirations will gloriously come alive. Afehyia pa. 2020 was by all standards a difficult year. COVID-19 battered the world from coast to coast, killing about 2 million people and infecting more than 90 million oth...

705 The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has published a list of 15 laboratories that are certified to test for COVID-19 in Ghana. The list accredited of laboratories includes the National Public Health Reference Laboratory (NPHRL), Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research (KCCR), Veterinary Services Department - Labone (VSD - Labone), the Veterinary Services Department - Takoradi (VSD - Takoradi) and the Public Health Reference Laboratory ...

Movements like #MeToo have drawn increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government. Discrimination is also a problem on user-driven sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s 20th birthday is on Jan. 15, 2021 and today it is the thirteenth most popular website worldwide. In December 2020, the online encyclopedia had over 22 billion page views. The volume of traffic on Wikipedia’s site – couple...

Movements like #MeToo have drawn increased attention to the systemic discrimination facing women in a range of professional fields, from Hollywood and journalism to banking and government. Discrimination is also a problem on user-driven sites like Wikipedia. Wikipedia’s 20th birthday is on Jan. 15, 2021 and today it is the thirteenth most popular website worldwide. In December 2020, the online encyclopedia had over 22 billion page views. The volume of traffic on Wikipedia’s site – couple...

University of Mysore signs agreement with Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Hyderabad Mysuru, Jan 12 (UNI) University of Mysore and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, a constituent laboratory of CSIR located at Hyderabad, Telangana, signed an MoU, in the area of Chemical Biology on Tuesday. CSIR-IICT is a premier R&D institute which has been established to carry out a variety of products and services for human welfare such as food, health, energy and the environment. Technology dev...

Good News Pilipinas AIM researchers use AI to address water shortage in Metro Manila The AIM-developed tool can be used in forecasting the water supply system of Angat-Ipo-La Mesa Dams and its treatment plants and storage reservoir. Photo of Angat River. Asian Institute of Management (AIM) researchers have used artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to develop a forecasting model that can address water shortage in Metro Manila. The AIM researchers, led by Dr. Christopher ...

Published January 7, 2021, 3:54 PM Preventing water shortages has taken a new turn with an initiative from researchers of the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) who have tapped into the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Led by Dr. Christopher Monterola, under the AIM-Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems Laboratory (ACCeSs) program, the research team developed a simulation modeling software to enhance Manila Water Company’s (MWC) capability in forecasting the wa...

  While many events that took place in the Northern, North East and Savannah regions would be considered significant given the diverse nature of the three regions, once together as one, it was the sad events, such as the killing of a 90-year-old woman and the incessant cases of armed robbery, that dominated the headlines. And who will forget the floodings that displaced hundreds of people and also destroyed farmlands that robbed farmers of their livelihoods that occurred in the three regions? ...

Published December 19, 2020, 12:28 PM Waste materials have been turned to being a valuable source of income through the Collaborative Research and Development to Leverage Philippine Economy (CRADLE) Program of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). According to the DOST, CRADLE enables local companies, including Small-to-Medium-Enterprises (SMEs) to find value through innovation.  It recently approved a research for a local company to turn previously unused and disposed materials int...