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Diageo Innovates Sustainable Glass Scotch Whisky Bottles Diageo Innovates Sustainable Glass Scotch Whisky Bottles Spirits giant Diageo recently collaborated with glass manufacturer Encirc in a pilot project to create what’s said to be the lowest carbon footprint glass bottles ever produced for a Scotch whisky brand. Diageo and Encirc worked alongside industry research and technology body Glass Futures to create waste-based biofuel-powered furnaces to reduce the carbon footprint of the bottle-...

OneWeb Launches 2021 Innovation Challenge To Identify New Ideas And Collaboration For Innovation In Space -- Invites industrial and engineering partners, academia and research professionals across sectors to present proposals to innovate a new generation of satellites. -- The successful entrants will receive the opportunity to work on satellite programme and drive the future of space communications. LONDON, April 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- OneWeb, the global communications network powered from sp...

  Franklin Cudjoe, president of IMANI Africa has questioned the rationale behind the appointment of three deputy ministers for some ministries by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. The ministries of Energy, Trade and Industries and Local Government will have three deputy ministers, according to the list released on Wednesday by the Office of the President.  The list of 39 deputy ministers-designate and one Minister of State-designate has been submitted to the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, fo...

Advertisement To mark World Creativity and Innovation Day, the GCCA is announcing the expansion of its innovation programme, ‘Innovandi’ to encompass a new Open Challenge innovation accelerator programme. The Open Challenge programme will launch in the coming weeks and will bring together start-ups and leading cement and concrete producers to create new innovations needed for the sector to reduce its carbon emissions and solve the climate emergency. Innovation is vital for the cement and co...

John Kumah deputises Ofori-Atta at Finance Ministry The Member of Parliament (MP) for Ejisu, John Ampontuah Kumah, according to reliable sources, has been appointed a Deputy Minister for Finance by President Akufo-Addo. Kumah’s appointment together with other nominees is expected to be released any moment from now. Already residents in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region have expressed gratitude to President Akufo-Addo for the nomination of John Ampontuah Kumah as a Deputy Fin...

  Residents of Ejisu in the Ejisu Juaben Municipality of the Ashanti Region have expressed gratitude to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the nomination of their Member of Parliament (MP), Hon. John Ampontuah Kumah, as a Deputy Finance Minister. According to them, John Kumah’s nomination is an ample indication of the confidence the President has reposed in him to occupy such a high-profile office as the Deputy Finance Minister. They assured the President and his government of their ...

GRAFT Challenge Vietnam 2021 launched to scale up AgriTech firms 11:34 | 14/04/2021 The press briefing on April 13 to introduce the launch of the GRAFT Challenge Vietnam 2021 Proudly sponsored by Aus4Innovation under Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs & Trade, the programme will support entrepreneurs from across the globe to solve the most pressing challenges facing Vietnam’s agri-food sector, including enhancing access to quality production inp...

A truly momentous occasion for glass: Diageo produces glass whisky bottles in waste-powered furnaces Black & White Scotch whisky is is popular in global export markets, according to Diageo Drinks giant claims biofuel furnaces tested in trial will reduce carbon footprint of glass manufacturing by 90 per cent and thus boost sustainability of its “grain-to-glass” supply chain Hundreds of thousands of bottles of Black & White Scotch have been produced in furnaces powered by waste in a pioneeri...

Date Time Technique allows mapping of epigenetic information in single cells at scale Decoding epigenomic information from individual cells from the mouse brain. Histones are attached to DNA as beads on a string, with different versions decorating the genome as “epigenetic stickers”, labelling which genes are turned on or off. The method single-cell CUT&Tag allows to examine tens of thousands of single cells at the same time to determine their histone profiles. Illustration by Amagoia Agirr...

Amy Gibbings The Department of Science and Technology is punching above its weight as it assists researchers to conduct cutting-edge research into the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Blade Nzimade. It has been a year since South Africa and the world embarked on the unprecedented step of imposing far-reaching lockdowns on many aspects of social, economic and political life. For the first time in modern history, borders were closed, forcing international travel and domestic movement to shut down. Not ...