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There is no greater sign of the urgent need for reform of the electricity sector than the way Eskom’s tariffs are set.
A prominent driving skills and road safety expert has rubbished claims that Aarto will prevent people with unpaid fines from selling their cars.
One of the oldest recognised constellations, it appears on Babylonian clay tablets and Ptolemy’s second-century list
For those of us in the northern hemisphere, September is an excellent time to search for the faint constellation of Capricornus, the sea goat, one of the oldest recognised constellations. It appears on Ptolemy’s second-century list of 48, and even before that on Babylonian clay...
Research shows arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy can be detected up to five years before diagnosis by other means
A simple cheek-swab test can identify children with a potentially deadly heart condition, five years before they would normally be diagnosed, research has found.
Arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM), which is typically genetic, is responsible for more than 10% of sudden cardiac deaths in...
“I have no musical talent at all,” says Oliver McCann. “I can’t sing, I can’t play instruments, and I have no musical background at all!” But the Associated Press describes 37-year-old McCann as a British “AI music creator” — and last month McCann signed with an independent record label “after one of his tracks racked up 3 million streams, in what’s billed as the first time a music label has...
“Nearly 400 students, many of them entrepreneurs, have so far made the journey to Forest City to study everything from coding to unconventional theories on statehood,” reports Bloomberg. “They’re building crypto projects, fine-tuning their physiques and testing whether a shared ideology — rather than just shared territory — can bind a community.”They have descended on Forest City to attend...
Futurism reports:Earlier this week, buried in the middle of a lengthy blog post addressing ChatGPT’s propensity for severe mental health harms, OpenAI admitted that it’s scanning users’ conversations and reporting to police any interactions that a human reviewer deems sufficiently threatening. “When we detect users who are planning to harm others, we route their conversations to specialized...
Research finds 76% higher risk for 15-year-olds with dysmenorrhorea than those without painful menses
Teenagers who have moderate or severe period pain are much more likely to develop chronic pain as adults, according to research.
Researchers said the findings should serve as a wake-up call to improve menstrual education, reduce stigma, and ensure young people have access to effective support...
Graphic designer Lisa Carstens “spends a good portion of her day working with startups and individual clients looking to fix their botched attempts at AI-generated logos,” reports NBC News:Such gigs are part of a new category of work spawned by the generative AI boom that threatened to displace creative jobs across the board: Anyone can now write blog posts, produce a graphic or code an app...
It’s one of the best times of the year to score a new mattress. Here are all the best deals (plus some exclusive sale codes) to snag ahead of the long weekend.
The U.S. government site climate.gov offered years’ worth of climate-science information — until its production team was fired earlier this summer. The site “is technically still online, but has been intentionally buried by the team of political appointees who now run the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,” reports the Guardian. But now “a team of climate communication experts...
“A class of drugs called beta-blockers — used for decades as a first-line treatment after a heart attack — doesn’t benefit the vast majority of patients,” reports CNN. And in fact beta-blockers “may contribute to a higher risk of hospitalization and death in some women but not in men, according to groundbreaking new research…”Women with little heart damage after their heart attacks who were...
“AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model mills,” argues Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at the Register. And “when AI searchbots, with Meta (52% of AI searchbot traffic), Google (23%), and OpenAI (20%) leading the way, clobber websites with as much as 30 Terabits in a single surge, they’re damaging even the largest...
“I’m still teaching at Princeton,” 83-year-old Brian Kernighan recently told an audience at New Jersey’s InfoAge Science and History Museums. And last month the video was uploaded to YouTube, a new article points out, “showing that his talk ended with a unique question-and-answer session that turned almost historic…””Do you think there’s any sort of merit to Rust replacing C?” one audience...
Cloaked in secrecy before its release, and hyped by the biggest names in technology, this invention was an entirely predictable flop.
Discovery that clopidogrel is a more effective blood thinner could transform health guidelines worldwide
Doctors have found a drug that is better than aspirin at preventing heart attacks and strokes, in a discovery that could transform health guidelines worldwide.
For decades, millions of people have been advised to take aspirin to reduce their risk of experiencing a serious cardiovascular...
“According to a new study, wearing the right kind of perfume or cologne can enlarge your brain’s gray matter,” writes ScienceAlertResearchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba in Japan asked 28 women to wear a specific rose scent oil on their clothing for a month, with another 22 volunteers enlisted as controls who put on plain water instead. Magnetic resonance imaging ( MRI)...
South African banks are reportedly set to battle each other for a slice of the state-owned Postbank’s R3-billion share of the social grants market, which will become available at the end of September 2025.
There’s something rare about a snail named Ned, reports CNN:Ned’s shell spirals left, while almost all other snails have right spiraling shells. It’s a one in 40,000 genetic condition among the common corno espersum… “I was quite breathless for a moment,” says Giselle Clarkson, an author, illustrator and self-described ‘observologist’ who found Ned while digging in her garden in Wairarapa, just...
Whether you’re at a festival, tennis match, or wedding, these hand fans and wearable cooling devices will make the heat way more bearable.