Don Cowan, a professor of microbial ecology at the University of Pretoria, in South Africa, says that their presence is unsurprising and "just what one would expect in a glacial lake sediment". Asked if they were significant biomarkers, he says that "All are important, in a general sense,...
bachelor of arts degrees in physics and computer science at bethel university in st. paul, minnesota. brian chan vp of engineering brian chan is cority’s director, software engineering. brian manages the core development operations, and he began his career at cority in 2002 on the ...
"These are the first everlioncubs to be born by means ofartificial insemination—the first such pair anywhere in the world," announced the University of Pretoria, whose scientists are researching the reproductive system of female African lions. The two cubs, a male and female, born on August ...
Fukomys livingstoni. Credit: Rebecca Gelernter of Near Bird Studios (@NearBirdStudios) Two new species of African mole-rat have been discovered by researchers at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), together with colleagues in Tanzania and at the University of Pretoria. ...
north of Pretoria in South Africa. Working with researcher Philip Pieterse from the University of Johannesburg and Professor Louis Scott of the University of the Free State, Thackeray discovered this evidence from a core drilled in a peat deposit, notably in a sample about 12 800 years old. Thi...
He transferred to the University of Pennsylvania after two years and earned bachelor's degrees in physics and business. After graduating from the prestigious Ivy League school, Musk abandoned plans to pursue further studies at Stanford University. ...
"Astrovirology is no more, nor less, valid than astrobiology," says Don Cowan, director of the Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics at the University of Pretoria. "There is no reason why astrovirology should not be considered with the same emphasis as 'prokaryote' [i.e. bacterial] ast...
955 miles off the African coast, Marion Island is a wildlife preserve full of seals, penguins and seabirds that is administered by South Africa. According to Nico de Bruyn, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Pretoria, the seals come to land twice a year: once to molt, the oth...