A Computer Lab on Wheels Taking ICT Lessons to the Slums of Nairobi and Bridging the Digital Gap Milicent Atieno August 22, 2016 STEM Craft Silicon Ltd., a Nairobi-based ICT solutions company, has initiated an innovative program through its Craft Silicon Foundation Center. This program aims at reducing the digital gap in not just the Nairobi...
The average Kenyan farmer is 63-years-old; Government wants to make Agriculture compulsory in Schools to lure Youths Milicent Atieno August 16, 2016 STEM As a Kenyan, I know it is a fact that the youth shuns agriculture, and the thought of being a farmer is looked at as the ‘plan-Z.' The go-to plan, when all avenues to making it in life have failed miserably....
This 16-Year-Old South African Invents a Superabsorbent Material to fight Drought Milicent Atieno August 11, 2016 Cool Tech Jobs, Fem Geek, STEM A severe drought is currently scorching South Africa and the greater southern Africa region. It is causing havoc across the land, with farmer recording massive losses as crops out in the field wither and...
With This Self-Filling Water Bottle – Fontus, You Will Never Feel Thirsty Again Felix Omondi August 10, 2016 STEM Did you know, without Blue, there will be no Green? ‘I don’t mean the colors, well colors, just not color…colors J’. In this sense; if Earth didn’t have this big mass of Blue water (oceans and...
Training Locusts To Sniff Out Bombs and Replace the Costly Robots Felix Omondi July 5, 2016 STEM As far as detecting possible bomb threats with zero human casualties, the authorities have had to rely on robots that are maneuvered remotely to the scene. If they find a bomb, sometimes things do not go as...
A Designer Baby With Two Genetic Mothers and One Father could be born in a Year’s Time Felix Omondi June 27, 2016 STEM Research led by the Newcastle University has found it possible to sire a baby using two women, both of whom will be its biological mothers. In simple terms, it is now possible to have a baby with one father...
Global Warming Worst Case Scenario; Is Space The Alternative Home Or The Ocean Floors? Felix Omondi March 20, 2016 Green Tech, STEM, Tech If you think about it, it sounds quite bizarre. Humans have spent billions of dollars in the quest to study the space. In expeditions that involve sophisticated technology and enormous risks; while our ocean...
Scientists Have Stumble Upon Bacteria That Consumes Plastic Felix Omondi March 14, 2016 STEM, Tech A team of scientists from Japan have stumbled upon bacteria that have evolved and adapted to consuming and breaking down plastic. This is a remarkable discovery when you think about all the havoc plastic is...
Africa Told: To Catch Up With The Rest Of The World You Need To Invest In STEM Milicent Atieno March 10, 2016 STEM, Tech The President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame while addressing an audience made up of Africa’s leading scientists, policymakers and startups at the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) in Dakar, Senegal on March 9,...
Scientist Successfully Manufacture Human Sperm Inside A Lab Felix Omondi September 19, 2015 STEM, Tech In what appears to be something out of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus book. French researchers on Thursday revealed they had successfully created human sperm from stem cells...
