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Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 00:00

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) chief scientist, Prof Andrew Forbes, has become the first South African and third African to be inducted into the elite Fellowship Class of the Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE).

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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 00:00

A cutting-edge South African-developed application that detects fires from space will soon help combat Angola's high incidence of wild fire. The technology is called the Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) and was developed at CSIR Meraka Institute.

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Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 00:00

The SANReN (South African National Research and Network) competency area at the CSIR Meraka Institute.

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Friday, May 17, 2013 - 00:00

Major step to unravelling the structure of membrane-bound proteins published in Nature journal.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 - 00:00

South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company, have formalised their collaboration.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 00:00

Big business from abroad is turning its attention to developing regions such as southern Africa for its next growth frontier, with opportunities being meagre in already developed countries.

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Friday, June 21, 2013 - 00:00

Team South Africa scooped top honours at the international Student Cluster Challenge in Leipzig, Germany this June. They achieved the highest total for all the benchmarks of the competition and aced the interview with the judges.

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Friday, July 19, 2013 - 00:00

The CSIR's Meraka Institute, in conjunction with various government departments, has recently completed a pilot project training teachers in the Eastern Cape to use multimedia tablets, and will now begin the project rollout to approximately 160 teachers at eleven schools.

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Monday, September 2, 2013 - 00:00

More than a third of learners who participated in a recent CSIR study reported that they never use sunscreen when they are out in the sun.

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Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - 00:00

The CSIR Meraka in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology, Department of Environmental Affairs, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and South African National Space Agency are pleased to announce the launch of the Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) mobile app