Curl up and die. It sounds terrible, doesn’t it? But that is about all pangolins can do when they are threatened by human beings. While their scales protect them from natural predators in the wild, what their scales cannot protect them from is humans, who just pick them up and carry them off. And for what? The misguided belief that pangolin scales have medical and healing properties or, equally pointless, as a luxury meat dish in China and Vietnam. Read more about this in our Ed’s Letter.
The March-April issue of Analytical Reporter Africa features materials testing; ovens, furnaces & incubators; titration; spectrometers/spectrophotometers; petrochemicals, oil & gas; and life sciences; together with our usual highlights and general products.
Once again, we include a special feature on COVID-19 news, diagnostics and instrumentation. We also highlight Pratley’s electrical testing laboratory, as well as the new Brazilian Synchrotron Light Source. Designed to be one of the first 4th-generation Synchrotron Light