As number of lunar satellites soars, sites will be marked out where defunct hardware can be crash-landed

Patches of the moon are destined to become spacecraft graveyards where dead lunar satellites and other defunct hardware can be crashed into the ground, far away from sites of cultural and scientific importance, researchers say.

The number of satellites circling the moon is set to soar in the...

These open-back headphones sound insane, but they aren’t that comfortable.

NTT Data is South Africa’s oldest data centre operator and among its oldest IT firms.

Are Japanese planners like the Hobonichi really better than American planners? Here’s where they differ and why you might want to switch.

Researchers have realised the records are a ‘goldmine’ to study changes in environmental conditions

Yangang Xing had never heard of organ-tuning books, but his colleague Andrew Knight often played the pipe organ at churches as a teenager.

When the pair, who are researchers at Nottingham Trent University, set out to study how environmental conditions in churches had changed over time, Knight...

From HIV to TB, scientists and doctors made breakthroughs in treatment and prevention of some of the world’s deadliest diseases

With humanitarian funding slashed by the US and other countries, including the UK, this year’s global health headlines have made grim reading. But good things have still been happening in vaccine research and the development of new and improved treatments for some of...

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein and Diddy-themed playsets are being made with Sora 2 and posted to TikTok.

The South African Post Office’s bid to have private couriers fined for delivering small parcels — and keeping the proceeds for itself — has been dealt a death blow.

This is the latest in the relentless purge of climate researchers who refuse to be co-opted by the fossil fuel industry

The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin would no doubt have understood and even appreciated the latest attack by the Trump administration on climate researchers and their work.

The National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, is to be dismantled after more than 50...

From Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to the US government’s Halo memes, fandom has become the defining language of US politics.

The billionaire’s involvement with the Trump administration and DOGE had deep impacts on Tesla’s bottom line. But Elon Musk was still able to turn his attention to SpaceX.

Smartwatches are cool and all, but have you considered wearable neurotech?

Two decades ago social media promised to connect people with pals far and wide. Twenty years online has left us turning to AI for kinship. IRL companionship is the future.

Nicolaas Hanekom discusses the biggest shift in consumer expectations around home air conditioning today.

Hamstrung by lawsuits, the state can’t officially keep its goal to ban new gas-powered car sales by 2035. But it’s going to keep trying.

All but two of South Africa’s biggest banks have shrunk their branch footprints since 2020.