After successfully growing lettuce in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station, NASA is attempting to grow flowers on the space vessel for the first time ever. FULL STORY >

Want to see what happens to liquids when inside the zero gravity conditions of the International Space Station? Well, NASA just released a 4K UHD video that does just that. FULL STORY >

Ballantine’s Whisky has partnered with Open Space Agency to create a whisky glass that works in microgravity. With the advent of space tourism soon upon us, it couldn’t come a moment too soon. FULL STORY >

SpaceX is currently building a Dragon spacecraft to send a crew to the International Space Station (ISS). Now we get a glimpse at the capsule for this manned mission. FULL STORY >

The rogue R&D developer start-up, Cowboy Aliens, has been tasked with disrupting the way South Africa engages with finance and banking. FULL STORY >

Seven weeks after NASA's New Horizons probe passed Pluto and its moons, the job of downloading "tens of gigabits" of data begins, which will take almost one year to complete. FULL STORY >

The Davis Tax Committee’s (DTC) First Interim Report on VAT focuses on a number of key challenges inherent to VAT in South Africa. FULL STORY >

Following the 46th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission, a new NASA-funded study claims that humans can build a Moon-base within a decade. FULL STORY >

Following last year’s successful competition, SA coders and gamers can now enter the Entelect R100K Challenge and put their AI skills to the test, with the finals set for rAge. FULL STORY >

The WhiteSpace Alliance (WSA), a global industry organization enabling sharing of underutilized spectrum, today announced that the core technology underlying its Wi-FAR specification has been approved... FULL STORY >

Two pieces of footage of last week's solar eclipse have emerged that space-geeks can consider a must watch. FULL STORY >

From an alien invasion using computer games, through to spies, possession, exorcism and the original Alien, our hot new trailers for the week has it all. FULL STORY >

When it comes to Space Travel, Deep Fried Man has no idea what the fuss is about. FULL STORY >

Some movies just leave you perplexed, or “Curiouser and curiouser!” as little Alice said. Movie aficionado, Spling tries to navigate the maze of mind-benders. FULL STORY >

We've crammed two weeks worth of geek news into one bumper edition, including a re-release trailer for 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sharlto Copley in PlayStation Plus' Powers, and Marvel's Civil War storyline for Captain America 3. FULL STORY >