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Jordan and Pakistan have announced plans to undertake joint science and technology projects. The eight projects will include work in the fields of biotechnology, agriculture, renewable energy and pharmaceuticals. The two countries will also consider additional projects in these and other fields, including nanotechnology. Specific areas of research planned include rainwater harvesting in desert areas, [...]

Nuclear Institute for Agriculture and Biology (NIAB) has reared a nursery of seedless kinno and started its sale on commercial basis, said Dr Kausar Abdullah Malik, member Administration and Biosciences, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC). He visited the nursery at NIAB here Saturday and lauded the efforts of PAEC scientists, observing that Pakistan could earn [...]

Pakistan’s Minister for Environment [has] said environment-related subjects would be introduced in school curriculum after consultation with the ministry of education. He stated this while inaugurating a one-day workshop on “Promotion of environmental issues through social mobilization, interpersonal communication and advocacy”, organized by Islamabad Resource Centre of the National Conservation Strategy of the ministry of [...]

A science exhibit that has been rolling around India for nearly nine months may soon be allowed to find its way to both Bangladesh and Pakistan, where some hope it will act as a ‘peace train’. Speaking in parliament, Kapil Sibal, India’s Minister of Science and Technology, has said that, pending security clearance from the [...]

Keeping in view the importance and the immediate requirement of the country in the field of avionics, establishment of an institute of avionics and aerospace was the need of the hour… The institute will help solve the research and development problems of private and public sector institutions, he observed. The project will be helpful in [...]

A five-day national chemistry talent contest for HSC or ‘A’ level students will begin on Wednesday at the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, University of Karachi. Pakistan had first participated in the 32nd International Physics Olympiad held in Turkey in 2001. Pakistani students have so far participated in three Physics Olympiads and their performance has [...]

The curriculum experts of the first National Committee organized by the National Institute of Science and Technical Education (NISTE) have finalized their recommendations on the development of Mathematics Kit to be introduced at Elementary and Secondary School Level throughout the country under Science Education Project, Ministry of Education. This was concluded by the participants of [...]

The 40-day study, of 60 people in Pakistan with Type 2 diabetes, found that one gram a day of cinnamon — one-fourth of a teaspoon twice daily — significantly lowered the subjects’ blood sugar, triglycerides (fatty acids in the blood), LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol, and total cholesterol. Don’t go bananas with this, of course. In [...]

Usman Ahmed, a 17-year old student from Lahore, could be the next Pakistani science sensation. Usman has just successfully completed a five-week course to which he had won entry through a worldwide competition. The annual research event for young scientists is sponsored by the Virginia-based Research Science Institute and run jointly by the world famous [...]

A project to introduce solar-drying technology for preservation of apricots will soon be launched in Northern Areas by the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) in collaboration with the Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET). Apricot is one of the fruits abundantly produced in all of the Northern Areas, a spokesman for the PSF said. While it [...]