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London, United Kingdom | AFP | Heading a football can significantly affect a player’s brain function and memory up to a day, a study by researchers at Scotland’s Stirling University has said. Memory performance was reduced by between 41 percent to 67 percent following heading practice, according to the research, …

Stockholm, Sweden | AFP |  A French, British and Dutch trio of scientists won the Nobel Chemistry Prize on Wednesday for developing the world’s smallest machines that may one day act as artificial muscles to power tiny robots or even prosthetic limbs. Jean-Pierre Sauvage of France, Fraser Stoddart of Britain …

Stockholm, Sweden | AFP | It’s serendipity: from America to Viagra, history is full of great discoveries helped along by chance, as more than a century of Nobel prizes can attest. Among the chance discoveries that have been honoured with the prestigious prize are X-rays (physics, 1901), penicillin (medicine, 1945), …

Miami, United States | AFP |  Men with localized prostate cancer were unlikely to die in the 10 years after diagnosis regardless of whether they chose surgery, radiation or no intervention at all, researchers said Wednesday. The findings in the New England Journal of Medicine included more than 1,600 men …

Paris, France | AFP | We all grow up to accept certain unassailable facts: water is wet, the Earth is round, and to produce a baby you need an egg and sperm. As it turns out, the last of these may turn out not to be true. On Tuesday, scientists …

The online repository Sci-Hub changed the way to 51 million scientific research, academic papers and articles COMMENT: By Nimrod Muhumuza A dark web pioneer releases a treasure trove of stolen/leaked documents, flees to another country for safety, has a multi-million dollar law suit filed against them, is denounced as a …

Researchers have revealed that Tanzania is lying on a huge deposit of valuable gas – helium. The discovery, according the LIVESCIENCE, occurred after researchers applied new methods of searching for the rare element. The researches from United Kingdom and Norway focused on identifying pockets of helium gas as a result of …

By Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba (Former Vice Chancellor, Makerere University) “No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, …

By Julius Odeke The Vice Chancellor Prof. John Ddumba-Ssentamu says Makerere University has the highest number of staff with PhDs in Uganda. He adds that every Senior Lecturer at Makerere University must have a PhD and currently, we have over 500 members of staff with PhDs adding that the number …

By Sarah Namulondo The ministry of health has set up a temporary virus research institute in Ibanda to reduce the delays in receiving Marburg results. Addressing a press conference today at media centre, the Minister of Health Christine Ondoa said that this was done to reduce the time it takes …