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New Study Shows Aerosol Boxes are NOT Effective in Protecting Health Workers from Coronavirus

22 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

New study published by Intensive care and Anastasia specialists at the Journal Anesthesia has found that Aerosol Boxes used to protect health workers from the Coronavirus does not work. According to the researchers this is because of the particles wh...

Computer Engineering Student Develops an App that can Report Environmental Problems

20 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

Computer Engineering student Jose Esciapez with his tutor Jose Romero has devised a smartphone application that will let the user submit environmental issues around them.  The app under the research title, “Development of a collaborative app for envi...

New, Uncatalogued Plant Discovered in the Valencia Region in Spain

18 Jul 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Jjpn47

Calicotome villosais (also called spring bloom), a new and uncatalogued plant has been discovered in the Valencia Region which is located in Spain. The Plant was reportedly found by Gilbert Thomas, last May while taking photographs of plants by in an...

Scientists Put Zinc on Bread Wheat to Solve Zinc Deficiency

17 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

A study published in the Agronomy Journal has found that spraying Zinc on Wheat leaves increases the zinc content of the plant. Which aims to help the 17.3 percent of people worldwide with Zinc Deficiency, a proper content of Zinc every day. Using a...

Denmark Passes Law that will make inaction against Climate Change Illegal

15 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

Last June, Denmark has officially passed a law that will make inaction to Climate change illegal by taking the Government's majority in the parliament. The law in theory, will make the government step down if the planned cut in carbon emissions is no...

Epidemiologists: Covid-19 is a wake-up call

12 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

Lead Epidemiologists, Dr. Josie Golding is said in a SciDev.net YouTube video that diseases like Covid-19 is a wake-up call that affects everyone. Besides being an Epidemiologist, Josie Golding is program officer for epidemic preparedness and respon...

Antarctica is Warming Three Times than the rest of the World

10 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

Antarctica is warming three times the global average, according to a new study conducted by Ohio University Climatologist Ryan Fogt and Kyle Clen. The study was published at the Journal Nature Climate Change suggest that the likely caused of the war...

Gold Mining is Stopping Trees From Regrowing In the Amazon says Study

5 Jul 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Jjpn47

Researchers at the University of Leeds has found that Gold Mining restricts the regrowth of Plants in the Amazon Rainforest thus accumulating Carbon. “This study shows that tropical forest are strongly impacted by mining activities and have little ca...

Learning by Group: How Dolphins learn Important Skills from Peers

1 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

A study Published at the Journal Cell has found that Dolphins learn to hunt prey by the help of their peers. "Our study shows that the foraging behavior 'shelling' -- where dolphins trap fish inside empty seashells -- spreads through social learning...

Living Environment may increase your chances of reaching a long life says study

30 Jun 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Jjpn47

Scientists at the University of Washington has found that living in a highly walkable, mixed age community increases your chances in reaching a hundred year's old by analyzing the data from 145,000 diseased people in Washington state. “Our study adds...