Mount Sharp dwarfs Curiosity

Rising above the present location of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the US, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover. This layered mound, also called Aeolis Mons, in the centre of Gale Crater...

Could this be the God particle?

Scientists believe they have discovered the elusive Higgs boson, or “God particle”. Data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which last July was tentatively thought to indicate the existence of the Higgs boson, has now been further analysed with much more...

Samsung boosts African education

Samsung has extended its Built for Africa programme to provide educational books and content, together with free access and lifestyle content, on its affordable range of devices.  At the Samsung Africa Forum yesterday, a number of partnerships that will enrich the...

Cybercriminals reuse malware

Sophisticated attacks originally targeting the financial services industry are now increasingly directed at other critical sectors of the economy, while an emerging set of new tactics and technologies are being implemented to evade industry-standard security measures....

Flat forecast for SA job growth

South African employment prospects remain flat for Q2 of 2013, with job seekers in the wholesale and retail and the transport, storage and communication sectors likely to benefit from the most opportunities.  According to the Manpower Employment Outlook Survey...

SKA partners on exascale research

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...