Jan 6, 2016
When Orville Wright traveled to Cleveland for the dedication of the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory in the 1940s, he had already witnessed the advancement of aircraft from his Kitty Hawk model to the winged machines that fought in World War II. Today, the lab, now...
Dec 28, 2015
Looking to the year ahead, CEOs are expected to serve as experts in a wide range of areas – by their investors, their boards, their employees, and the public. “The CEO position is more complex than it ever has been – and CEOs must have a much broader and deeper skill...
Dec 24, 2015
Asteroid 2003 SD220 will safely fly past Earth today (24 December) at a distance of 6,8-million miles (11-million kilometers). Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have generated the highest-resolution images to date of this...
Dec 21, 2015
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has captured a unique view of Earth from the spacecraft’s vantage point in orbit around the moon. “The image is simply stunning,” says Noah Petro, deputy project scientist for LRO at NASA’s...
Dec 18, 2015
Stolen medical information is a much more widespread issue than previously thought, affecting 18 out of 20 industries examined in the just-released “Verizon 2015 Protected Health Information Data Breach Report”. However, most organisations outside of the...
Dec 15, 2015
The people power witnessed in 2014 and 2015, for example in changes of government in Burkina Faso and Nigeria, will be proved limited in 2016. A combination of elections, constitutional pressures and financial difficulties will test governments across the region,...
