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Email: ipuk@knust.edu.gh

Telephone: +233 3220 62184

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Stanford engineers invent high-tech mirror to beam heat away from buildings into space

Stanford engineers have invented a revolutionary coating material that can help cool buildings, even on sunny days, by radiating heat away from the buildings and sending it directly into space.

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Researchers Developed Method That Can Process Human Waste into Fuel

Scientists from the University of Florida have developed a method that can process human waste into fuel in order to be used on space missions.

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Microsoft Employs Robots as Security Guards

Several 1-1/2-meter - tall, 136-kilogram robots have recently started patrolling Microsoft’s compound in California's Silicon Valley as security guards.

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India On The Verge Of A Tech ‘Gold Rush’

The technology industry’s new Bay Area hub may be pretty far from San Francisco. The Bay of Bengal is shaping up to be the next hot startup market.

Four Crops – But Mostly Corn – Can Negatively Affect Global Temperatures

Every winter, when plants die and return to the earth from whence they came, they release several chemicals they have been storing in their physical bodies.

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FG, Seven Other Countries to Get GSK Fund for Non communicable diseases

As GSK launches the first call for proposals for its Africa NCD Open Lab, to support much-needed scientific research into non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in Africa, no fewer than eight countries i

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West Africa: Speedy Ebola Test Among UK Projects Given Grant

A portable device to test bodily fluids for Ebola in under an hour and anthropological training to help foreign health workers work more effectively with local people in West Africa are among five

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Paul Allen donates $100 million to start cell research institute

He said the Allen Institute for Cell Science will investigate and model the complex workings of cells in a way that scientists have not been able to do previously, creating a visual database and an

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New Research Ranks Kenyans As The Most Generous People In Africa

A recent research (World Giving Index 2014)conducted by has ranked us infront of South Africans as t...

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