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An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. The results appear in the latest issue of the prestigious international astronomical journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society(MNRAS). ...
University of Louisville researchers have uncovered how to create nanoparticles using natural lipids derived from grapefruit, and have discovered how to use them as drug delivery vehicles. UofL scientists Huang-Ge Zhang, D.V.M., Ph.D., Qilong Wang, Ph.D., and their team today (May 21, 2013), published their findings in Nature Communications. Lipids (right panel first three tubes) derived from grapefruit. GNVs...
The SKA Organisation officially opened its new international head office on Tuesday. It is located at the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics in Cheshire, England. This is one of the world’s leading radio astronomy observatories and home to the famous 76-m-diameter Lovell radio telescope, first commissioned in 1957. The new building is a state-of-the-art design, which cost £3.34-million...
Four young South African entrepreneurs have made it to the final round of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) International Space Apps Challenge, becoming one of 133 international teams to reach this stage. The challenge was an international mass collaboration focused on space exploration that took place over 48 hours in cities around the world, and which saw the submission of nearly 800...
Ten schools in the Cape Town area have been connected to the Internet at speeds of 4 MB/s using unused ultra-high frequency spectrum between 480 MHz to 690 MHz reserved for television broadcasting, says Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) Meraka Institute manager Dr Ntsibane Ntlatlapa. The ten schools are participating in the first trial in South Africa to study the effects of and potential...
