After losing a year to havoc and job-slashing at Nasa, the pressure is on billionaire administrator Jared Isaacman

With astronauts set to fly around the moon for the first time in more than half a century when Artemis 2 makes its long-awaited ascent sometime this spring, 2026 was already destined to become a standout year in space.

It is also likely to be one of the most pivotal, with new...

Absolute Hosting’s positive Google Reviews show why South African businesses continue to choose its hosting services.

South Africa is getting several new undersea fibre optic cables over the next few years, increasing redundancy in cases of outages.

Vodacom Business won the award thanks to its broad ICT offering and customer-centric innovation.

Starlink owner SpaceX has called on South Africans interested in its satellite broadband services to email ICASA to voice their support.

Robyn Thomson immunised thousands of animals in Cambodia after shocking death of her mother this summer

It was just a scratch. Among all the feelings and thoughts that she has had to wrestle with since the summer, disbelief is the emotion that Robyn Thomson still struggles with the most. “You never think it would happen to you,” said Robyn. “You don’t really think it happens to...

An empowerment policy deadlock clouds telecoms reform that could create thousands of jobs through billions in investments.

A look at South Africa’s leading names in the IT, telecommunications, banking, and financial sectors reveals a shared approach.

DeepSeek published a paper outlining a more efficient approach to developing AI called Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections.

Finding the right crypto presale often means looking beyond the hype to see what each project actually does. Some focus on keeping information private, others connect blockchains that usually stay separate, and a few bring traditional finance into the crypto world. Each one tackles a different problem, which makes understanding their individual approaches more useful […]

A major Chinese car brand, which operates in South Africa, met its full-year global sales target and likely surpassed Tesla to become the world.s largest electric-vehicle maker in 2025.

Baidu’s artificial-intelligence chip unit has confidentially filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering, kicking off what’s expected to be a busy year for listings by companies backing China’s technological ambitions.

Let’s be honest: January isn’t the time for harsh goals or impossible reinventions. It’s for slow mornings, softer starts, and setting yourself up for a year that flows better.

Home Affairs is hoping to rapidly expand the number of bank branches arouns South Africa offering smart ID and passport application services.

XRP holders are entering a familiar phase, but under very different conditions. Despite regulatory clarity, ETF approvals, and renewed institutional interest, XRP has spent recent weeks moving sideways between $1.80 and $1.86. For a token once associated with explosive upside, this range-bound behavior has forced investors to reassess where near-term growth will come from. Rather […]

New year plant hunt shows rising temperatures are shifting natural cycles of wildflowers such as daisies

Daisies and dandelions are among hundreds of native plant species blooming in the UK, in what scientists have called a “visible signal” of climate breakdown disrupting the natural world.

A Met Office analysis of data from the annual new year’s plant hunt over the past nine years found an...

9,500-year-old pyre uncovered in Malawi offers rare insight into rituals of ancient African hunter-gatherer groups

A cremation pyre built about 9,500 years ago has been discovered in Africa, offering a fresh glimpse into the complexity of ancient hunter-gatherer communities.

Researchers say the pyre, discovered in a rock shelter at the foot of Mount Hora in northern Malawi, is thought to be the...

Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today we examine how the White House’s war on vaccines has left the future of a key technology uncertain and up for grabs

The late scientist and thinker Donald Braben argued that 20th-century breakthroughs arose from scientists being free to pursue bold ideas without pressure for quick results or rigid...

Peter Foreshaw Brookes says worry about falling sperm counts is misplaced

The Italian “demographic winter” has a number of causes, but rising male biological infertility is not one (A child is born: Italians celebrate village’s first baby in 30 years, 26 December).

A lot of worry about falling sperm counts has been generated by some studies, but a more recent meta‑analysis found, through...

Exclusive: Identifying teenagers at risk could help prevent organ damage, strokes and heart attacks in early adulthood, doctors say

Leading doctors have called for a national UK programme to monitor schoolchildren for high blood pressure amid concerns that rising rates in adolescents will increase cases of organ damage, strokes and heart attacks.

Rates of high blood pressure have nearly doubled...