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December 19, 2012
Bored over the holidays? Why not enter our writing competition?

Are you a budding science writer? Or a researcher with a penchant for waxing lyrical about your work? You still have until January 25 to tell us your stories about grid computing and the science it underpins for your chance to win €500 worth of electronic goodies!

December 5, 2012
Google Science Fair winner builds neural network to fight cancer

This summer, Florida high school student Brittanny Wenger was awarded first place in the Google Science Fair. She created a cloud-based neural network to help doctors better detect breast cancer using a less invasive form of biopsy.

September 26, 2012
Announcing the EGI Writing Prize 2013 in association with iSGTW

Are you a budding science writer? Or a researcher with a penchant for waxing lyrical about your work? Tell us your stories about grid computing and the science it underpins for your chance to win €500 worth of electronic goodies!

September 12, 2012
Rolling in the Higgs

Today marks the 10-week anniversary of the 4-July announcement that a particle consistent with the long-sought Higgs boson had been discovered at CERN. So, what better way to celebrate than with this great tune from A Capella Science...

March 9, 2011
Opinion - The philosophy of Ubuntu

South Africa is increasing its investment into ICT, science and technology. The scientific coordinator of the South African Development Community (SADC) took time out to tell iSGTW how he achieves this and the future challenges he faces.