A giant leap towards Mars

NASA took a major step on its journey to Mars on Friday as the Orion spacecraft completed its first voyage to space, travelling farther than any spacecraft designed for astronauts has been in more than 40 years. “Today’s flight test of Orion is a huge step for NASA...

Jozi a well of innovation

Johannesburg has been named as the second-most inspiring city in the world, after Hong Kong, by the 2014 Good City Index. In a study conducted by the global Good magazine, Joburg scored the highest points in all categories the publication uses to rank cities. These...

Future workforce changing rapidly

Work really is no longer the place that people go to, but rather the function they perform. And, in the modern workplace, the boundaries between office, home and play are blurring more than ever. Dell and Intel have unveiled findings from the second Global Evolving...

Corruption cloud hangs over SA

South Africa ranked number 67 out of 174 countries on the latest Corruption Perception Index from Transparency International. The country’s score of 44 puts South Africa on the wrong side of a scale that scores 100 for “very clean” and 0 for “highly corrupt”. It joins...

Nanodiamonds read quantum data

Quantum computing could soon become a mainstream reality, with the news that nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamonds could be used to construct vital components for quantum computers. Before now it has been impossible to read optically-written information from quantum...

Doodle imagines poaching-free SA

A Grade 8 learner has won the South African Doodle for Google competition with a nature-themed doodle envisioning a country free from poaching. The competition invited school children across the country to create a Google Doodle depicting the “South Africa of Their...