WEDNESDAY, 29 OCTOBER 2025, 20:59
An electronic eye implant half the thickness of a human hair has helped people with incurable sight loss to see again, opening up a potential ‘new era’ in tackling blindness. Madeleine Finlay hears from Mahi Muqit, a surgeon from Moorfields eye hospital in London, about what this implant has meant for his patients and what the future could hold for vision-loss therapies
Clips: BBC
Continue reading…
Semaglutide study suggests such drugs could have wider benefits, though researchers find shrinking waistlines linked to better heart outcomes
The weight-loss drug semaglutide cuts the risk of heart attack or stroke regardless of how many kilograms people lose, the largest study of its kind has found.
However, shrinking waist size – a sign of less belly fat – was linked to better heart...
The company sold more cars but made less money on each one because of discounts and low-interest loans.
Utility rates are rising in many places across the country, and we’re continuing to report on the causes and impacts.
Scientist whose research into transuranic elements revised the understanding of nuclear fission
Darleane Hoffman’s research into superheavy radioactive elements at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and, prior to that, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, enhanced and extensively revised our knowledge of those elements and, consequently,...
In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies.
Notable variations between different medications were found in weight gain or loss, heart rate and blood pressure
People taking certain types of antidepressants can gain up to 2kg (4.5lbs) in weight within the first two months of treatment, while patients taking other drugs can lose the equivalent or more, according to a major review of potential side-effects.
The research, led by academics at...
Drivers will be able to converse with an artificial intelligence assistant while cars largely drive themselves in certain situations, the company said.
Gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to highly contagious deadly disease
Pigs that are resistant to a deadly viral disease have been created by scientists at Edinburgh’s Roslin Institute.
The gene-edited animals remained healthy when exposed to classical swine fever (CSF), a highly contagious and often fatal disease. The virus was eradicated in the UK in 1966, but there have been...
Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer.
The cuts will not affect Meta’s newest A.I. hires, who are in some cases being paid up to hundreds of millions of dollars. The layoffs are focused on correcting an earlier hiring spree.
South Africa expects to lift the care and maintenance status of its Pebble Bed Modular Reactor by the first quarter of next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority says the tech giant dominate the smartphone market.
MSB Micro Systems is transforming how companies manage mobile connectivity, giving them real-time control over Sim usage and costs.
In writing about my mother, Jenny Cox, I mentioned that she was refused permission to do her botany PhD research on the island of South Georgia purely because she was a woman. Though she saw this as an injustice for the rest of her life, she never revealed any details of what happened.
The efficient archive service at the British Antarctic Survey have now made available a letter from Sir Vivian...
South Africa’s mobile operators have developed voluntary Sim registration principles to combat rampant Sim fraud.
South Africa’s Financial Sector Conduct Authority issues new licences for crypto platform, VALR.
A court has struck down the 2021 regulations, ruling Icasa’s market-power findings against MTN and Vodacom legally flawed.
Uniphore, the Business AI company, today announced the close of its $260 million Series F round. NVIDIA, AMD, Snowflake, and Databricks invested in the round and were joined by financial and sovereign investors including NEA, March Capital, BNF Capital, National Grid Partners, and Prosperity7 Ventures.
The embattled State Information Technology Agency says it is unable to fill all open vacancies due to missed revenue targets.
Automotive manufacturers supercharge their electric vehicle strategies, as demand grows in SA and government introduces incentives for production and ownership.