Animated Educational Videos Promote Learning Among Farmers
There are up to one billion people with low literacy globally, many of whom live in rural areas and only speak their region’s local language. In Africa alone, there are an estimated 2000 local languag...
8 Dec 20217min
‘Green Manure’: How Cover Crops Create Healthy Soils and Boost Crop Yields - Dr Lynn Brandenberger | Dr Joshua Massey
In order to meet the demands of a growing human population, farmers across the globe are attempting to improve the yields and nutritional content of their crops. However, this is an especially difficu...
1 Dec 202112min
Providing Effective Pest Management Education Through Animations - Dr Julia Bello-Bravo
Integrated pest management describes effective and environmentally sensitive approaches to controlling agricultural pests, which are based on combinations of different practices. Educational informati...
29 Nov 20217min
Engineering the Path to New Semiconductors - Dr Yasuo Koide
As fundamental components of our electronic and optical devices, semiconductors are essential to our modern way of life. Dr Yasuo Koide of the National Institute for Material Science in Japan has an e...
29 Nov 202113min
Causality: A Fundamental Necessity or Part of the Problem?
For thousands of years, the notion of a one-way flow of cause-and-effect has underpinned virtually every scientific theory. Yet Dr Martin Tamm at the University of Stockholm argues that this notion of...
26 Nov 20216min
Strategies and Tools for Studying Microglial-Mediated Synapse Elimination and Refinement
Synapse elimination is a tightly regulated process, and an aberrant number of synapses both during the early stages of development or later in aging, has been observed in several neurological conditio...
26 Nov 202112min
Uncovering The Trigger For Mars’ Global Dust Storms - James H. Shirley
Enshrouding the Martian surface with thick clouds of dust, the Red Planet’s unique global dust storms have long mystified astronomers and planetary scientists. James Shirley, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
24 Nov 202115min
The HBCU - HDI Women In STEM Conferences - Dr Sonya Smith
Although the number of women enrolling in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) courses has increased over the past few years, women still remain widely underrepresented in STEM fields. To ...
24 Nov 20219min
