Jul 5, 2016
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft last night successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. “Independence Day always is something to celebrate, but today we can...
Jul 4, 2016
A brilliant new blue pigment – discovered almost by accident by Oregon State University (OSU)chemists in 2009 – is now reaching the marketplace, where it will be used in a wide range of coatings and plastics. The commercial development has solved a quest that began...
Jul 1, 2016
NASA’s Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft has entered the planet’s magnetosphere, where the movement of particles in space is controlled by what’s going on inside Jupiter. “We’ve just crossed the boundary into Jupiter’s home turf,”...
Jun 30, 2016
The sun has gone blank twice in June, with no sun spot activity recorded at all. According to Meteorologist Paul Dorian, the sun went spotless for the first time since 2011 from 4 June, for four days. Although sunspot regions then reappeared for the next few weeks on...
Jun 29, 2016
Spotting an opportunity that sparks an entrepreneurial idea is a dominant driver of startup businesses in South Africa – but they are not creating jobs at the scale and rate South Africa so urgently needs. This is just one of the findings of South Africa’s...
Jun 28, 2016
HP Inc country manager Thibault Dousson, who was due to take up a new EMEA-wide position within the group this week, has resigned and left HP Inc altogether. It was reported earlier this month that Dousson was exchanging his job as South African country manager at HP...
