Oct 8, 2020
The sources of South Africa’s dust emissions could pose a threat to food security. A new paper in the Aeolian Research journal titled “South Africa’s agricultural dust sources and events from MSG SEVIRI” points to windborne dust from large tracts of northern Free...
Oct 7, 2020
When a star unleashes as much energy in a matter of days as our Sun does in several billion years, you know it’s not going to remain visible for long. Like intergalactic paparazzi, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured the quick, fading celebrity status...
Oct 6, 2020
NVidia will acquire Arm from Softbank in a $40-billion transaction that aims to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The deal brings together NVidia’s AI computing platform with Arm’s ecosystem to create the computing company...
Oct 5, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the move away from cash as customers increasingly demand low-touch or contactless payments. New research from Yoco, polling 4 386 small business owners from its customer base, investigated how many businesses had elected to go...
Oct 2, 2020
A new system capable of automatically turning words into molecules on demand could open up the digitisation of chemistry. Researchers from the University of Glasgow’s School of Chemistry, who developed the system, claim it will lead to the creation of a...
Oct 1, 2020
At a time when many organisations are suspending in their investments in South Africa, SEW Eurodrive is committing to spend around R400-million on a new head office and factory in Johannesburg. The company today broke ground on the construction site that will house...
