Science news articles about 'johannesburg south africa'

... Lujo virus, after the sites of the outbreak (Lusaka, Zambia, and Johannesburg, South Africa) is published online in PLoS Pathogens (http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.ppat. ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The ship was laden with tons of copper ingots, elephant tusks, gold coins - and cannons to fend off pirates. But it had nothing to protect it from the ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- The United Nations environment agency unveiled a new atlas Tuesday that shows what the agency says are the dramatic effects of climate change on Africa....

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Making tests and treatment for malaria free dramatically increases the number of people who seek treatment for the disease that kills 1 million people a year, an ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Dinosaur bones found in South Africa have filled in some blanks in the long evolutionary history of the extinct giant reptiles, a scientist says.

... were thin." Berger, an American-raised paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, stunned archaeologists in March with his claim -- based on skeletal ...

... in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. There the rod-shaped bacterium Desulforudis ... living more than 1.5 kilometers deep in South Africa's Witwatersrand mining district. "We knew ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Thabo Mbeki's spokesman says the former president is flying to Zimbabwe to help resolve a deadlock in power-sharing talks to end that country's crisis....

... the earth in the Mponeng gold mine near Johannesburg, South Africa. There the rod-shaped bacterium Desulforudis audaxviator exists in complete isolation, total darkness, a lack ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- A medical trial involving 16,000 children across Africa will be a challenge to human, scientific and communications resources on the world's ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- Girls who give birth before the age of 15 are five times more likely to die in childbirth than women in their 20s, the U.N. said Thursday, ...

... Seattle. An additional 20 patients were enrolled in a hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighty-five percent of the patients were men whose median age was 28. They were ...

... Anthony Bamigboye, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. "Improved pain relief allows mothers to bond with their babies and ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A species of mosquito in South Africa new to researchers may carry the ability to transmit malaria, researchers in Johannesburg said.