WEDNESDAY, 18 MARCH 2026, 03:00
Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age
Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree – research suggests.
While chronological age is based on how long a person has lived, biological age reflects the state of the body. Estimates of the latter are often...
The artificial intelligence company filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds.
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.
As the US space agency misses its launch window for the second month, smaller firms continue work on their parts
It was shaping up into another ordinary day at the Colorado headquarters of the small space startup Lunar Outpost last Friday when chief executive Justin Cyrus learned of a surprise press conference called by Jared Isaacman, the new administrator of Nasa.
Cyrus’s company epitomises...
As part of its ongoing efforts to build digital skills and literacy among women in rural communities, the Women’s Development Business (WDB) Trust Training Academy will host two ICT graduation ceremonies in Mpumalanga and Limpopo. The events celebrate learners who have successfully completed a year-long ICT skills development programme. A total of 184 learners will […]
ID applications are the first use case, but passports and other types of documents are in the pipeline.
As global travel demand continues to surge, with Airbnb recently reporting a 12% revenue increase in the fourth quarter of 2025 and projecting “low double-digit” growth for 2026, a new wave of innovation is emerging from Africa . Durban-based startup AirhostSwap is quietly gaining traction by solving the oldest problem for property hosts: inventory waste. Instead of letting […]
Memory chip shortages are squeezing PC specs – rental models offer businesses a smarter way through.
Capitec, South Africa’s leading financial services group, has launched its in-branch Smart ID service in partnership with the Department of Home Affairs (DHA). Following a successful piloting phase, the service is now live in select branches, marking the beginning of a phased national rollout that will expand to 100 locations by mid-2026. Capitec clients can […]
Orca Fraud, a real-time fraud intelligence platform, has raised $2.35 million in an oversubscribed seed round to advance its transaction monitoring and fraud intelligence capabilities across Africa and other emerging markets. The round was led by Norrsken22, with participation from OneDayYes, Enza Capital, and CV VC Africa. The funding follows 16 months of rapid enterprise […]
Canal+ is expected to lay out its strategy for MultiChoice and DStv when it reports results on Wednesday.
The rand has tumbled below R16.90/$ as investors dump risk assets amid the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.
Fintech start-up NjiaPay has bagged $2.1-million in seed funding to simplify payments across Africa.
In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms
Craig Munns has a large model of a T rex on his desk. He got it with a magazine subscription two decades ago. One day, a few years ago, he was sitting in his study, which was dense with books and yellow sticky notes and posters charting evolution from single cells...
Constellation of Cancer is not easy to locate but reward is the star cluster M44 at its centre
The constellation of Cancer, the crab, is now high in the southern sky during the late evening. While not the easiest constellation to locate because it does not contain any truly bright stars, it does offer a reward for patient observation: the star cluster M44, also known as the beehive...
The World Bank has committed to a credit guarantee facility aimed at unlocking $10-billion for infrastructure investment.
Oil prices have surged by the most since the 1970s, triggering a global market rout and stoking inflation fears.
Medical data from 100m people shows risk 122% higher for amphetamine users, 96% higher for cocaine and 37% higher for cannabis
Recreational drugs can more than double the risk of stroke, with some of the most concerning impacts seen among younger people, a major review suggests.
Scientists analysed medical data from more than 100 million people and found that the risk of stroke was 122% higher...
Jane Logan pays tribute to her late husband’s lifelong passion for classifying organisms
My late husband, Niall Logan, professor of bacterial systematics at Glasgow Caledonian University, would have been astonished that his lifelong field of academic study, taxonomy, in his case the genus Bacillus, would merit an entire article in the Guardian (‘I love midges because I know what their hearts...
Researchers who listen for signs of non-human life say signals ‘can slip below detection thresholds, even if it’s there’
Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there, they’re just having a hard time getting through to us because it’s stormy in space.
Reminiscent of ET’s struggles to “phone home” in Steven Spielberg’s 1982 blockbuster movie, new research by...
Exclusive: Guardian study finds UK museums hold more than 260,000 items of remains, often in sacrilegious ways
• Which human remains are held in UK museums – and where?
The vast number of overseas human remains held by UK museums is a shameful legacy of colonialism, with many items kept in ways that are sacrilegious, according to MPs and archaeologists.
An investigation by the Guardian found...