The MeerKAT radio telescope, located in the province of the Northern Cape, has produced a remarkable image showing a combination of cosmic features never before seen, revealing ... Read more »
Since 2013, Kimberley Chapelle of the American Museum of Natural History has used an array of different methods - computerised tomography (CT) scans, statistics, studying the bones ... Read more »
The European Commission has published a proposal for a regulation on artificial intelligence (AI). This is the first document of its kind to attempt to tame the multi-tentacled ... Read more »
According to Fatima Hassan and Mitchell Warren, the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed that vaccine development and testing timelines can be shrunk from decades to months. Hassan, the ... Read more »
A team of French scientists in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park has developed a deep learning computer system to distinguish between individual giraffes, a tool that could help to ... Read more »
Changes in traditional eating patterns have brought about new health threats on the continent, including an increase in non-communicable diseases. Dietary interventions are also ... Read more »
Professor Salim Abdool Karim has been appointed to the newly formed World Health Organisation (WHO) Science Council. According to the South African Medical Research Council ... Read more »
A group of African scientists has called on the funders of Africa-focussed health interventions to change their approach and make sure that African scientists are not excluded from ... Read more »
Surfaces like rocky outcrops that dot much of South Africa's coastline are of profound scientific, cultural, heritage, environmental, and aesthetic importance. These cemented ... Read more »
The bombshell announcement that one of the major international funding instruments for universities in South Africa - and the rest of Africa - is cutting its budget by half and ... Read more »
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