Feb 4, 2019
Apollo 17 astronauts drove a moon buggy across the lunar surface in 1972, measuring gravity with a special instrument. There are no astronauts on Mars, but a group of clever researchers realised they have just the tools for similar experiments with the Martian buggy...
Feb 1, 2019
Enterprises across the global supply chain recognise their approaches to cybersecurity must be strengthened, but are not yet taking the practical steps to safeguard their industrial Internet of Things (IoT) deployments. This is one of the findings of a study...
Jan 31, 2019
A gigantic cavity — two-thirds the area of Manhattan and almost 300m tall — growing at the bottom of Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica is one of several disturbing discoveries reported in a new NASA-led study of the disintegrating glacier. The findings...
Jan 30, 2019
An Aon study demonstrates that 389 natural catastrophe events in 2018 generated economic losses of $224-billion. Of that total, the Weather, Climate & Catastrophe Insight: 2018 Annual Report shows that private sector and government-sponsored insurance programs...
Jan 29, 2019
A new NASA study shows that warming of the tropical oceans due to climate change could lead to a substantial increase in the frequency of extreme rain storms by the end of the century. The study team, led by Hartmut Aumann of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in...
Jan 28, 2019
If Africa’s leaders do not act quickly to move the continent into the 21st century, young people will leave them behind. That is the word from President Cyril Ramaphosa, speaking at last week’s World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. Young people are ready...
