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April 3, 2020April 3, 2020 Tsepo Majake

We continue with circle geometry for grade(s) 10-12 on our Facebook page, join us from Monday to Friday from 10:00-12:00

Food Security In the next issue Quest Online

Coming Up: Quest Vol. 16.1 (2020)

January 14, 2020February 11, 2020 Questadmin Food Security

The theme of the March-April 2020 issue will be ‘plant health’, as Quest joins the global community in celebrating the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH 2020).

Disabilities Quest Online

Quest Volume 15.4

November 26, 2019March 12, 2020 Questadmin deafness, disabilities, paralympians, paralympics, prosthetic hands

In this issue: Protecting paralympians: Investigating injury and illness in paralympic athletes; A helping hand: Prosthetic hands developed at local universities; Tukkies for the hearing-impaired: University of Pretoria academics assist the deaf; Disability due to neuromuscular disease: Genomics research – Stephen Hawking profile; High-tech aids for the blind and visually impaired and more!

Machine Learning Quest Online

Quest Volume 15.3 now available!

September 9, 2019November 26, 2019 Questadmin air pollution, astronomy, Basotho medical plants, biomedical engineering, circumnavigation, cosmology, ecological surveys, lego, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, lizards, machine learning, math-art, national science week, quantum machine learning, science fair, wood-fungus

This issue of Quest focuses on machine learning across various disciplines. Machine learning is the scientific study of algorithms and statistical models that computer systems use to perform a specific task without using explicit instructions, relying on patterns and inference instead. It is seen as a subset of artificial intelligence.

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Quest Vol 15 No 2 is now available!

July 18, 2019September 9, 2019 Questadmin 3D printing, Bokkeveld, digital avatars, fossil echinoderms, Lindau, Little Foot, marine forecasting, microCT, Nobel Prize, SALDi project, star, ZACube-2

This issue of Quest focuses on microCT. MicroCT is a 3D imaging technique utilising X-rays to see inside an object, slice by slice. MicroCT, also called microtomography or micro-computed tomography, is similar to hospital CT or “CAT” scan imaging but on a small scale with greatly increased resolution.