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‘Waste’ Fuels Scientists’ Efforts (story and video)
Posted on February 3, 2013 | No CommentsBy Dipti Kumar, Michael Ruiz and Ansa Varughese
For decades, the logistics of moving equipment and people to remote deserts hindered Richard and Meave Leakey’s paleoanthropological research. They needed a better way to hunt fossils. -
Fossil Hunter Leakey Searches for Fuels of the Future
Posted on February 3, 2013 | 1 CommentBy Dipti Kumar and Ansa Varughese
Beyond allowing the institute to function at lower cost and become self-sufficient in energy, another goal of the projects is to help the surrounding Turkana community. -
Scion of Anthropology Dynasty Tackles Energy
Posted on February 3, 2013 | No CommentsBy Rebecca Anzel
With the press of a large green button, the machine – an 8-foot tower of silver cylinders, black boxes and tubes – hummed to life. -
A Turkana Man Finds a Career in Science
Posted on February 3, 2013 | No CommentsBy Michael Ruiz
As a child, Francis Ekai, a member of the pastoralist Turkana tribe, watched a team of anthropologists dig up a nearly complete fossilized skeleton near his father’s grazing land.