Media Releases
The popular science magazine Quest is launching an interactive website to make science more accessible and exciting for learners. It will be demonstrated using groundbreaking technology developed at the CSIR Meraka Institute.
(Released jointly by the CSIR and IMPERIAL Logistics, in partnership with Stellenbosch University)
Researchers at the CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) have demonstrated a world-first laser cladding system that offers a permanent solution to sealing leaks and repairing cracks at power stations.
Field investigations and hydrological modelling of dryland agriculture in the Berg Rivers catchment are yielding new insight into the origin of salts and the behaviour of a sensitively balanced water system and will form the subject of a workshop to be held at the University of Stellenbosch this
Researchers at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) are one step closer to providing Tuberculosis (TB) sufferers with a once-a-week medicinal regime rather than their current daily doses.
The CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), with the rest of the world, is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the invention of laser, the acronym used for the phenomenon of light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
A training course developed by the CSIR Meraka Institute in the design and implementation of wireless mesh networks will be presented at the University of Zululand during the first quarter of 2010.
The Meraka Institute of South Africas CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) has taken the lead in organising the one-day Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
With the official signing of a collaboration agreement, the CSIR and Cermalab today formalised the work they are doing together at southern Africa's only unbiased high-temperature materials laboratory.