Namibian

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a classroom in Namibia's northern Oshikoto region, a teacher has written English vocabulary words on the chalkboard. She asks her learners to read them aloud. When they stumble with pronunciation, she corrects them. She also helps the youngsters to sound out words. At another school nearby, an English teacher is showing her class cartoon strips on her cellphone to help them create mental…

Researchers have developed a new model explaining the mysterious fairy circles in grasslands, integrating plant phenotypic plasticity and spatial self-organization. Their findings, offering insights into ecosystem resilience under water stress, highlight the need for a more complex understanding of ecosystems in changing climates.After extensive research and unsatisfactory alternative explanations, Prof. Ehud Meron and his team believe pairing spatial patterning and phenotypic changes provides the answer.Fairy circles,…

One of the ways we can fully realize the potential of quantum computers is by basing them on both light and matter – this way, information can be stored and processed, but also travel at the speed of light.  Scientists have just taken a step closer to this goal, by successfully producing the largest hybrid particles of light and matter ever created.These quasiparticles, known as Rydberg polaritons, were made with the help of a piece of stone containing cuprous oxide (Cu2O) crystals from an ancient deposit in Namibia, one…