Media Releases
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.
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.
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.
South Africa's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Boeing, the world's largest aerospace company, have formalised their collaboration.
Internationally acclaimed scientist at the CSIR, Prof Andrew Forbes, has led the development of the flame lens - a world first - which might be a game-changer in optics as the world knows it. The optic lens uses air to do the focusing and can handle virtually unlimited power.
Major step to unravelling the structure of membrane-bound proteins published in Nature journal.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced the appointment of May Hermanus as the Executive Director of its Natural Resources and Environment (NRE) research unit. Hermanus will assume her new role at the CSIR from 4 June 2013.
The SANReN (South African National Research and Network) competency area at the CSIR Meraka Institute.
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.