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At 80, the evolutionary scientist and atheist still courts controversy, but his passion for social media could sideline his true legacy.
“As engineers, we want to create things that don’t necessarily exist on the planet, or may have never existed, but that solve real problems,” said
Crucibles of leadership May 17, 2021 No religion, save Islam, lays greater emphasis on education of male and female alike. Sindh Madressatul Islam gave us Jinnah and many of his trusted lieutenants. Our village and public schools of yore produced our greatest champions in education, sports, arts, literature and sciences. Much that education plays a pivotal part in governance and ensures productive lives, over the years much like all other societal facets, it faced a grotesque decline. The 18th Amendment cast education as a fundamental right of all children; its Article 25A rendered it the s...
Credit: IPK Leibniz Institute/ Andreas Bähring "Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will be awarded a medal from the Royal Physiographical Society in Lund for his significant and pioneering contributions to the field of cereal genomics," explains Prof. Mats Hansson, Professor of Plant Molecular Biology at Lund University and representative of the Mendelian Society and the Royal Physiographical Society. In connection to the prize ceremony, Prof. Dr. Nils Stein will give "The Royal Physiographic and Mendelian Societies in Lund Honorary Lecture in Genetics". Earlier speakers include for example Barbara McCli...
Last modified on Sun 28 Feb 2021 23.36 EST The neuroscientist Michael Land, who has died aged 78 from respiratory disease, was the Marco Polo of the visual sciences. He visited exotic parts of the animal kingdom, and showed that almost every way humans have discovered to bend, reflect, shape and image light with mirrors and lenses is also used by some creature’s eye. His research revealed the many different ways in which animals see their own versions of reality, often to find members of the opposite sex. His 1976 discovery that prawns focus light not by lenses, but with a structure of mirr...