Jul 8, 2013
The largest ever search for supernovae – exploding stars up to 10-billion times brighter than the Sun – is beginning this August. For the next five years, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) will look for these cosmic explosions, which can be used to measure precisely the...
Mar 11, 2013
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) South Africa, a business unit of the country’s National Research Foundation, is joining the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy Astron and IBM in a four-year collaboration to research extremely fast, but low-power exascale computer...
Mar 5, 2013
New global research from Accenture, titled Defining Success, has found that more than two-thirds of professionals around the world say they can “have it all”. In fact, having both a successful career and a full life outside work is so important that many choose a job...
Feb 11, 2013
With the dawn of a new year, many new innovative startups are also bound to see the light as young entrepreneurs with stars in their eyes and dreams of becoming the next Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Mark Shuttleworth, put their ideas into what they surely hope will...
Jan 23, 2013
In 1953, Cambridge researchers Watson and Crick published a paper describing the interweaving “double helix” DNA structure – the chemical code for all life. Now, in the year of that scientific landmark’s 60th Anniversary, Cambridge researchers have...
