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Maryam Shanechi, Dean’s Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Director of the USC Center for Neurotechnology, and her Ph.D. students have developed a new, advanced deep-learning method for brain signals that can perform real-time decoding to significantly advance neurotechnologies. This work has been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.

By BUUMBA CHIMBULU in Chipata

MOST of the challenges faced at the Nakonde, Mwami and Chirundu border posts that could not be addressed by Government budget have been dealt with by the implementation of the Zambia Border Posts Upgrading Project (ZBPUP).

By NATION REPORTER

THE Crushers and Edible Refiners Association Director, Aubrey Chibumba, says Zambia’s sunflower industry has continued dwindling due to lack of investment in research and development.

Mr Chibumba said since the privatisation of research institutions like ZARA, which were owned by the government, there has been a lack of new seed varieties.

He said as a result, farmers have been relying on old varieties, such as milica, which was developed decades ago.

He added that other factors that have negatively impacted the cultivation of sunflowers in Zambia include the geographic distribution of oil-pressing machines.

He said only in the Eastern Province where there are many oil-pressing machines has seen a significant increase in the cultivation of sunflowers.

Mr Chibumba has since said that increasing the cultivation of sunflowers will require investment in oil-pressing plants in other regions of Zambia.

He urged the government to support the sunflower value chain as this will increase production of the commodity.

…boasts that October 24 retreat from which he installed himself president of PF got rid of what he terms bad political hijackers

By NATION REPORTER

EXPELLED Matero Member of Parliament Miles Sampa yesterday bragged in Parliament that he is leader of the biggest opposition political party, Patriotic Front (PF) and has branded its legitimate leadership as hijackers.

Brigham researchers’ findings support developing public health interventions that incorporate components of environmental health literacy alongside cancer screening efforts.

Death rates related to infective endocarditis declined in most adults across the U.S. within the last two decades, yet accelerated among young adults ages 25 to 44 years old, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Issues of identity, male-dominated branding and apprehension that their needs will go unmet are among the reasons women are not accessing veterans’ mental health support, according to new research being discussed at a conference in Cambridge.

By SANFROSSA MBERI

THE Constituency Development Fund (CDF) that the United Party for National Development (UPND) has been singing about is nothing but chileya (off tune) and a scam, National Democratic Congress (NDC) president Saboi Imboela has said.

People are less likely to adopt new health policies if they don’t have faith in their government, and a new tool from University of Waterloo researchers aims to fix that.

By NATION REPORTER

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has disclosed that Zambia has become the world’s largest emeralds producer after taking over Chile and yet value addition companies can not buy emeralds locally.