November 24, 2017 1.24am AEDT Shutterstock Author Thumbi Ndung'u Programme Director for the Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence (SANTHE), University of KwaZulu-Natal Disclosure statement Thumbi Ndung'u receives funding from the Gates Foundation, Gilead Sciences, the South Africa National Research Foundation, The National Institutes of Health, the Victor Daitz Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. He is
Jessica Mairs | 17 November 2017 A house made using a rammed-earth construction technique developed to rebuild a village destroyed by earthquake has received the title of World Building of the Year 2017 at the World Architecture Festival awards. The Chinese University of Hong Kong developed the technique to help the residents of Guangming Village,
Ha Noi, 24 November 2017 – Implementation of Viet Nam’s first project funded by the Green Climate Fund, 'Improving resilience of vulnerable coastal communities to climate change-related impacts in Viet Nam', took a step forward today with completion of an inception workshop. Valuing more than US$29 million in grant finance, the project adopts a people-centred, integrated approach to resilience building in vulnerable
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer | November 17, 2017 11:00am ET Every time you learn a skill, new cells burst to life in your brain. Then, one after another, those cells die off as your brain figures out which ones it really needs. In a new opinion paper, published online Nov. 14 in the journal Trends in Cognitive Sciences, researchers proposed that this swelling and shrinking of the brain is a Darwinian process.
Hi Jon In today's clip you will see not just residential structures, but water tanks, aqueducts, churches and schools made of plastic bottles! Enjoy this video in full screen mode, because only then can you see in the walls, the very soda and water bottles we throw away every day. Great solution for low cost housing! Video: http://www.nextworldtv.com/page/6360.html NextWorldTV.com P.S. Please share NextworldTV.com
By Ercilia Sahores On Nov. 6, the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP23) to the UN Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) kicked off in Bonn, Germany, the nation's former capital. Germany is one of the world's worst offenders when it comes to pollution. It's also the largest polluter in all of Europe. But Germany is not alone in the polluting business—and countries are not the only big polluters. The world's top 20 meat
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