The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has launched a state-of-the-art online climate risk profiling and adaptation tool to assist municipalities across South Africa to assess climate risks and growth pressures, by implementing adaptation actions towards the development of clim...
CSIR scientist becomes South Africa’s rising star
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) senior scientist and advanced material testing lab manager, Georges Mturi, is South Africa’s rising star. Mturi scooped the Standard Bank Rising Star Award in the Service: Public & Private category at an event held at the Hilton Hotel in Sandt...
Agrément South Africa awards 29 fit-for-purpose certificates to local and international companies
Agrément South Africa, an agency of the Department of Public Works managed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has awarded 29 fit-for-purpose certificates during the 2016/2017 financial year following a rigorous process of testing and evaluation. The CSIR has been managi...
Opening up Africa’s road industries to new innovative products
Roads in Africa have often been challenging to travel on because of the different types of pavement failures. With the help of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research’s (CSIR) world-class bituminous binders laboratory, US-based science company, DuPont, is changing how roads are built i...
CSIR Optics Student Chapter competes internationally
The CSIR Optics Student Chapter (OSC) was recognised as a finalist among three other international student chapters in the community/youth outreach category at the Optical Society of America (OSA) Student Chapter and Local Section Excellence Prize ceremony held in Rochester, New York, last month....
The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport and CSIR Research partnership to accelerating transport service delivery
The Gauteng’s Department of Roads and Transport and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today announced several transport-related research projects that will address some of the province’s public transport challenges. Gauteng MEC for Roads and Transport, Ismail Vadi, said th...
Three LiDAR systems successfully collect data simultaneously at same location
For the first time in South Africa laser scientists at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) were able to operate three LiDAR measurement simultaneously in the same location to collect atmospheric backscatter data in Westville, Durban. This historic event took place at the LiD...
CSIR researcher receives L'Ore'al-UNESCO Sub-Saharan Africa 2016 Award
A cell biologist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) was awarded the 2016 L'Ore'al-UNESCO Sub-Saharan Africa Award for her work involving the use of cutting-edge microscopes and synthetic biology tools to understand how immune genes are regulated. For the past 18 years, t...
MSQ Health partners with CSIR to make innovative health devices accessible
It is undeniable that technology has made life far easier and its impact is felt in every area of society, especially in health care. With new illnesses and diseases being diagnosed across the world, the importance of innovation in health care is becoming more and more necessary. MSQ Health and t...
Eskom and the CSIR sign a new strategic partnership agreement
Eskom and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) today signed a partnership which seeks to synergise the research capabilities of two state-owned organisations in support of Eskom’s strategic and operational needs. The overall accountability to manage the agreement will reside ...