SGCI Multilateral Research Call advancing Africa?s Science, Technology and Innovation – fundsforNGOs

We’d like to thank the members of the local organizing committee: J. Soltis (chair), A. M. Delgado, and M. Yunus and the STScI Events Planning Group, especially S. Smith and V. Ramnarine. We’d also like to acknowledge the generous support of travel grants provided by ESA’s Space Science Faculty.

Sandra Chayo, businesswoman and lecturer, descendant of Lebanese and Bolivian Jews, uses her calm and engaging voice to tell the stories of personalities who transformed the world. In her series “Jews Who Changed the World”, she presents the life and legacy of Rosalind Franklin, the invisible scientist who photographed life itself. Recognized for her role…

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The World Economic Forum’s latest Top 10 Emerging Technologies report explores tech at the tipping point between scientific progress and real-world impact. From extracting essential raw materials and quantum cryptography to designing personalized drugs, technology is achieving more for less impact and moving closer to where it’s needed. Many of the Top 10 technologies have…

Some breakthroughs in physics come from brand new inventions. Others begin with a new theory. But many advances happen when researchers combine familiar technologies in an unexpected way and create something more powerful than the individual parts. That strategy could be especially valuable in the search for weakly interacting particles, including neutrinos and certain dark…