Comets swamp strange star
A star called KIC 8462852 has been in the news recently for unexplained and bizarre behaviour. NASA’s Kepler mission had monitored the star for four years, observing two unusual incidents, in 2011 and 2013, when the star’s light dimmed in dramatic,...
HP’s final figures are down
The final results for HP as a single company are in, showing declines in revenues and earnings. The company reports fiscal 2015 net revenue of $103,4-billion, down 7% from the prior-year period and down 2% on a constant currency basis. Fiscal 2015 non-GAAP diluted net...
The nature of dark matter
The solar system might be a lot hairier than we thought. A new study publishing this week in the Astrophysical Journal by Gary Prézeau of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, proposes the existence of long filaments of dark matter, or...
Simulations show tectonic activity
Scientists at the University of Texas at Austin, IBM Research, New York University and the California Institute of Technology have been awarded the 2015 Gordon Bell Prize for realistically simulating the forces inside the Earth that drive plate tectonics. The...
Staff drive clients away
What would frustrate South Africans enough to switch banks? Surprisingly it is not benefits, or rewards, or a cheaper alternative that would make them move – but impolite, rude or uninterested staff.