Feb 6, 2019
A large proportion of the cost, disruption, pollution and exposure to natural disasters in a city would be eliminated if there were no infrastructure. Imagine no sewage or gas pipes, electricity poles or even sidewalks from which people leap into the face of...
Feb 5, 2019
Once the solid bedrock of South Africa’s economic growth, the country’s mining industry has been in steady decline for the past 20 years as its international competitiveness has waned. While it is important to be cognizant of the challenges that face the...
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...
