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Paris, France | AFP |  Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft has finally spotted the tiny lander Philae stuck in a dark crack on the surface of its comet home — the first glimpse since the robot lab crashlanded in 2014, ground controllers said Monday. The European Space Agency (ESA) released a photograph …

Uganda and South Korea have signed a Memorandum of Understating in 10 areas of interest to the two nations. This was after President Yoweri Museveni officially welcomed the President of South Korea Park Geun-hye for her first state visit to Uganda. The ten areas of cooperation are; policy consultation (foreign …

By Morris Komakech Science is important but scientific practice without theory is false science Going by President Yoweri Museveni’s wishes, Uganda will soon become a nation of robots and scientists. For the nth time, the President has condemned Arts subjects for causing rampant youth unemployment. Many writers have pitched in …

By Morris DC Komakech Time to increase demand for African knowledge in science and practice in the mainstream research The second international conference for the Advancement of Science in Africa (SASA) ended at Hotel Africana last week on Friday, May 9. This SASA conference started in Polokwane in South Africa …

Could this be the HIV cure we have been waiting for? Danish scientists are hoping for results that will show that “finding a mass-distributable and affordable cure to HIV is possible”, according to an article in The Telegraph of the UK. The article says the scientists are conducting a clinical …

Kampala, Uganda | Sarah Namulondo | Students and lecturers at Makerere College of science have joined in today’s celebrations of the international World Radiography Day. The day which is gazetted by the World Health Organisation is celebrated to commemorate the 1895 x-ray discovery by Dr W Roentgen in German. The discovery introduced …