People Science and the Fight Against Covid-19
Many scientific studies cannot be replicated. Therefore, their conclusions may be incorrect. This replication crisis is increasingly being recognised in…
Maswali matano na Dr. Daniel Maeda
Ni miezi sita tangu ugonjwa wa COVID-19 ulipoibuka jijini Wuhan nchini China, mnamo December 2019. Leo hii COVID-19 – yaani…
Science or Art Subjects? What Advise To Give To Our Children?
We need to change the narrative. Students should be told that school is not about getting a job afterwards.
Five questions with Dr. Askwar Hilonga
Dr. Askwar Hilonga is the Tanzanian scientist behind a new water filtration system that is affordable and promises to save lives.
99 Problems, Ebola Ain’t One
This past Sunday, October 19th, Nipashe reported on a possible Ebola case in Mwanza‘s Sengerema district. The patient, Salome Richard,…
Open versus deep: How we learn from data
Different data will tell different things. How deep do stories about data get? What exactly can we learn from data?
Results from Poll #8
Most voters expressed that, in some ways, doctors can work with traditional healers. What ways might these be?
Maswali Matano Kuhusu Tuzo ya Nobel ya Fiziolojia na Tiba
Ugunduzi kubadili chembechembe hai ya aina yoyote ili iwe na uwezo wa kujibadili kuwa aina nyingine, umewapatia Sir John Gordon na Prof. Shinya Yamanaka tuzo ya Nobel ya Fiziolojia na Tiba ya mwaka 2012. Tunamhoji Daniel Maeda ili atueleze kwa kina kuhusu teknlojia hii.
Je, tunashughughulikia ufumbuzi wa tatizo la elimu nchini?
Pitia au wanunulie watoto wako wa wadogo zako kitabu kinachoitwa “Enjoy Chemistry, Furahia Kemia”, kisha tupe maoni yako. Hiki ni kitabu cha kwa kwanza cha kiada kilichoandikwa kwa lugha mbili (Kiingereza na Kiswahili) kwa ajili ya wanafunzi wa kidato cha kwanza.
Maswali Matano kuhusu ugunduzi wa Higgs Boson
Wiki hii wanasayansi duniani kote wamefurahishwa na matokeo ya awali ya tafiti ghali kuliko zote zilizopata kufanywa na binadamu. Nia ya tafiti ni kufahamu chimbuko la tungamo (mass), au ni nini hasa hukipa maada tungamo?
D3: Are you Tanzania’s best software developer?
The Startup Tanzania team are continuing the tech momentum with the first developer’s competition this weekend.
Reversing brain drain
Mali researcher shows how to reverse brain drain.
The International Village for Science and Technology
Today the Tanzanian parliament is discussing Tanzania’s science, technology and innovation policy. There has been a cry for a serious look into this matter since ages. Below is the lecture by Prof. Leonard K. Shayo presented at the Mathematical Association of Tanzania (MAT), Annual Seminar Iringa, in 1991.
HIV as you’ve never seen it before
To create the visualisation, the team consulted over 100 articles on HIV from leading science journals and talked to experts in the field.
Pilipili
Ifuatayo ni taswira ya muonekano wa kirusi cha ukimwi (HIV). Kama ulicheza gololi, basi kirusi hiki kina udogo wa zaidi ya mara bilioni tisini ya eneo la gololi dungu!
From Mali to Microsoft
Cheick Diarra on finding his way from a small farming community in Mali to becoming Microsoft chairman for Africa.
So now Betelgeuse is to explode? Not so fast!
Kiranga muses about the apparent hysteria on news that the super-giant star Betelgeuse might ‘soon’ implode, a spectre known as supernovae.
Chemsha bongo
Tell us, where the hell can one find such a thing? What is it for? Is it functional, if at all?
Upcoming tech conference in Dar: eLearning Africa 2011
More and more technologists are finding ways to work with educationists, and vice versa. Find out how you can participate in a conference that aims to create a networking platform for both.
Swahili Labs
Because the future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
University spin-off companies
Are we there yet?
Mwamlonzo solar power project
Searching for alternatives.
Tanzania na allergy ya Hisabati
Tunahitaji chanjo?
Kulikoni kimondo cha Mbozi
Kimondo cha Mbozi hakizungushiwi hata uzio wa senyenge tu?
Searching for Africa’s next Einstein
One person’s conviction in the next Einstein hailing from Africa is changing the pace of education across the continent.
Ukimwi na chanjo
Safari bado ni ndefu.
Cell animation
We have been posting a lot of physical sciences talks lately; but it’s not like we have forgotten people who are fond of biology…
3D atlas of the universe
Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe.
Lower IQs found in disease-rife countries
Please read the following article and leave your comment(s); let’s try to be as objective as possible. I would like to hear views from doctors, biologists, neurosurgeons/neuroscientists, cognitive psychologists and, lastly but not least, people who have taken more than one statistics course.
Taifa la wavumbuzi
Je, unafanya nini kutayarisha taifa hilo?