"I was trained as an applied mathematician with a strong emphasis on statistics as a student at Dhaka University, Bangladesh. It transpired that this is not a common combination and I then went on to do my PhD at Loughborough ...
Mathematics
Oct 8, 2014
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Noise is increasingly becoming a problem in schools and affects the audibility of speech.The effects of noise hamper learning opportunities for learners.
Ecology
Aug 11, 2016
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Nature Communications today published research by a team comprising Scottish and South African researchers, demonstrating entanglement swapping and teleportation of orbital angular momentum 'patterns' of light. This is a ...
Quantum Physics
Sep 21, 2017
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Previously thought of as heavy, slow and sluggish, the 260-million-year-old predator, Anteosaurus, was a ferocious hunter-killer.
Paleontology & Fossils
Mar 3, 2021
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The first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path, has been discovered by a team of South African scientists and ...
Space Exploration
Oct 8, 2013
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The remains of a microscopic drop of ancient seawater has assisted in rewriting the history of Earth's evolution when it was used to re-establish the time that plate tectonics started on the planet.
Earth Sciences
Aug 1, 2019
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Endothermy, or warm-bloodedness, is the ability of mammals and birds to produce their own body heat and control their body temperature.
Evolution
Jul 20, 2022
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Complex life, as we know it, started completely by chance, with small strands of molecules linking up, which eventually would have given them the ability to replicate themselves.
Biochemistry
Sep 19, 2017
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The earliest evidence of a drawing made by humans has been found in Blombos Cave in the southern Cape in South Africa.
Archaeology
Sep 12, 2018
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The extremely difficult conditions in which University of the Witwatersrand's (Wits) Professor Lee Berger's Rising Star team was forced to work, gave rise to the use of space-age technology to map the Dinaledi chamber and ...
Archaeology
May 31, 2016
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