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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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...

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...

Have you ever looked back at Tron or Aster and wondered, “Why didn’t I invest back then?” The feeling of watching a small ICO explode into massive profits is hard to shake. Tron’s ICO was just $0.0019, later surging dramatically, while Aster jumped from $0.005 to significant highs at its peak. Early investors who grabbed […]

Mahe, Seychelles – In an era where the cryptocurrency industry has been thoroughly tested and user demand for “transparency” has reached its peak, the world-leading digital asset exchange platform, Zoomex, announces the official launch of its long-awaited flagship financial product Zoomex Card (Virtual Mastercard). The launch of Zoomex Card is not merely a business expansion, […]

When a token starts trading, the first price print matters more than most people realize. It becomes the market’s baseline, the level traders anchor to when they decide what “upside” looks like next. For BlockDAG, that baseline is now clear. As BDAG began trading, the price pushed up to $0.01, and that move immediately shaped […]

The crypto market is buzzing, and traders are eyeing the next big gem. From Apeing to Pepe, Bonk, Apecoin, Pudgy Penguins, and Floki, everyone wants a piece of the action. But one project is making serious waves: APEMARS ($APRZ). With its presale live and exciting growth metrics, this could be the next crypto to hit […]