Oct 12, 2016
US president Barack Obama has outlined a vision for the future of space exploration, with Mars firmly on the agenda. Echoing what he said in the 2015 State of the Union address, the President wrote: “We have set a clear goal vital to the next chapter of...
Oct 11, 2016
NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover will drive down a gully carved long ago by a fluid that might have been water, according to the latest plans for the 12-year-old mission. No Mars rover has done that before. The longest-active rover on Mars also will, for the first...
Oct 10, 2016
S’nenhlanhla Dlamini from Ongoye Secondary School took home the top prize at the 2016 Eskom Expo for Young Scientists International Science Fair (ISF). The Grade 12 learner wins a full scholarship to study in Germany sponsored by Siemens. Her project is entitled...
Oct 7, 2016
By Kathy Gibson This week’s FNB Codefest saw 48 teams from various group companies battle it out in a 48-hour hackathon, to be one of the 10 to face a “Dragons’ Den” of business and technology judges. The Codefest event gives the banking...
Oct 6, 2016
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded for the development of the world’s smallest machines, including tiny lift, artificial muscles and miniscule motors. Jean-Pierre Sauvage, University of Strasbourg, France, Sir J Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern...
Oct 5, 2016
Millennials can’t live without their smartphones, but this doesn’t mean they are ditching other devices. These are among the findings of MFour’s Millennial Insights Project, examining millennials’ views on technology and lifestyle, with a focus...
