Oct 1, 2018
A new tuberculosis (TB) vaccine could potentially prevent active pulmonary TV in HIV-negative adults. The New England Journal of Medicine has published the primary results of an ongoing phase IIb clinical trial testing the candidate tuberculosis vaccine M72/AS01E. The...
Oct 1, 2018
Facebook has announced the names of three South Africans who have been selected to join the Facebook Community Leadership Programme as Fellows. They are: * Gabriel Hoosain Khan, who supports “LGBTI Community, Human Rights” Facebook Group, which provide a...
Oct 1, 2018
The Hasso Plattner School of Design Thinking at the University of Cape Town (UCT) has been recognised, together with eight other global institutions as pioneers of design thinking, for doing things differently and for moving education forward in innovative,...
Sep 28, 2018
The extent of Arctic sea ice, with reached its 2018 lowest extent on 23 September and again on 23 September, has tied with 2008 and 2010 for the sixth lowest summertime minimum extent in the satellite record. This is the conclusion from satellite data by NASA and the...
Sep 28, 2018
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed fraud charges against Elon Musk, the outspoken chief executive of Tesla. The SEC is seeking to prevent him from running any publicly-traded company. The organisation filed the suit in the US District Court for...
Sep 28, 2018
South African Internet-connected consumers still gravitate towards brick and mortar shops for their purchases, with more shoppers practicing “webrooming” than “showrooming”. A GfK South Africa report, “E-commerce 360: Navigating the...
