Oct 19, 2017
Researchers with NASA’s Cassini mission found evidence of a toxic hybrid ice in a wispy cloud high above the south pole of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The finding is a new demonstration of the complex chemistry occurring in Titan’s atmosphere...
Oct 18, 2017
The South African IT services market, while flat in US dollar terms, grew 15,13% in local currency terms in 2016. This was revealed in the recently-published South Africa IT Services Market 2017–2021 Forecast and 2016 Analysis by International Data Corporation...
Oct 17, 2017
The astronomical facilities of the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) have contributed to the study of what is fast becoming one of the most widely studied events in the history of astrophysics. These events are a direct detection of gravitational...
Oct 16, 2017
The proportion of businesses reaping the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services has increased significantly in the last quarter, with three-quarters of IT professionals (72%) believing infrastructure as a service (IaaS) makes it easier for businesses to...
Oct 13, 2017
A new NASA study provides space-based evidence that Earth’s tropical regions were the cause of the largest annual increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration seen in at least 2 000 years. Scientists suspected the 2015-16 El Nino – one of the...
Oct 12, 2017
Intel has delivered a 17-qubit superconducting test chip for quantum computing to QuTech, its quantum research partner in the Netherlands. The new chip was fabricated by Intel and features a unique design to achieve improved yield and performance. The delivery of the...
