Christina Scott
Guest Author
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/ 3 January 2007

Ticking tuberculosis timebombs

More than half of all healthcare workers in the developing world, including Africa, are unknowingly infected with deadly tuberculosis (TB), according to a report on the Science and Development Network’s website. The report also contains worrying findings about the emergence of extensively drug-resistant TB in countries such as South Africa.

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/ 2 December 2006

Science goes super silly

The cheerful Super Silly Science Game is ideal for cash-strapped classrooms. For a start, teachers can get it free. It’s also fun. So much fun that students playing it may not realise they’re refreshing their knowledge and skills at the same time.

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/ 3 May 2006

The Blob: Unlikely Aids hero

Okay, so abstinence hasn’t worked very well, featuring more in conversations than in bedrooms. Male condoms mean trusting men both to display foresight and to eat the proverbial "banana with its peel on", while female condoms are scarce, awkward and apparently noisy. A vaccine against that quick-change-artist, the Aids virus, is science fiction — and likely to remain that way for a long time.