by Ben Atkinson | Feb 28, 2020 | News
Huge bacteria-eating viruses blur lines between life and non-life Researchers have recently discovered hundreds of abnormally large bacteriophages that blur the lines between living microbes and machine-like viruses. The size and complexity of these phages are...
by Ben Atkinson | Feb 14, 2020 | News
Ancient DNA from West Africa reveals clues about ancient humans Africa is the where humans first originated, and is home to the highest human genetic diversity on the planet. An international research team has recently sequenced DNA from four children buried 8,000 and...
by Ben Atkinson | Jan 31, 2020 | News
Stress turns hair gray by triggering the body’s fight-or-flight response Researchers recently reported in Nature that stress does in fact lead to graying hair, and they have identified how exactly it happens!Stress triggers the natural fight-or-flight response in the...
by Ben Atkinson | Jan 21, 2020 | News
Afrisnet Launches the first Student Chapter at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana In December 2019, the Afrisnet Board of Directors approved the launching of the Afrisnet Student Chapter at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and...
by Ben Atkinson | Jan 17, 2020 | News
Dr. Daniel Schwab Appointed Chair of the Afrisnet Education Committee One of Afrisnet’s major objectivites is to educate African students and professionals about research, and to assist the students as they identify and seek research opportunities from around...
by Ben Atkinson | Dec 19, 2019 | News
New evidence confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs Researchers at Northwestern University have led a new study that measures the calcium isotope composition of Antarctic fossilized clam and snail shells, which...
