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It turns out long-held resentments exist even in the animal kingdom. Does that mean they hold an evolutionary advantage?
The best thing that happened to me during the whole of the pandemic was a story on the internet. An Oregon resident, furloughed, saw on a daytime nature documentary that, if you fed crows, they would bring you small gifts. Curious, they tried it, and were delighted to find...
Since the age of six Greta Solomon knew she was a writer, but gained a richer sense of self when she discovered her ancestors were gifted storytellers too
There’s a photo somewhere – taken to preserve history – of me swabbing my inner cheek with a cotton stick, ready for DNA testing to find my roots. Two years earlier, in 2008, my mother had died by suicide, aged 60. The coroner had said...
Company that helped build Nasa’s Saturn V rockets said to be keen to focus on fixing problems in core aircraft business
For six decades, Boeing has been among the marquee names in human spaceflight.
The company helped build Nasa’s mighty Saturn V rockets that put man on the moon; it was a key contractor during the space shuttle era and international space station operations; and its engines...
The billionaire has effectively become the star of his social media platform, transforming X into a reflection of his personal views before the election.
OM Bank will target customers earning between R5,000 and R80,000 per month, says CEO Ian Williamson, who described launching the bank as a “no-brainer” given Old Mutual’s extensive banking activities. “Our unsecured lending book is sitting at R16 billion. We have about 400,000 active transactional account users in our transactional banking solution, which we do […]
In a bid to grow its presence in South African townships, Takealot is recruiting 1,000 last-mile delivery drivers in Mpumalanga, with plans to expand nationwide, reports the Sunday Times Business Times. The initiative, launched in collaboration with the Mpumalanga provincial government, offers residents new opportunities in the ecommerce sector. “This is the second province where […]
Cancer cell detector made of material that won its inventors Nobel prize is hailed as ‘clinical milestone’
A revolutionary device designed to transform the surgical treatment of brain tumours is set to have its first clinical trial in what scientists say could be a major medical breakthrough.
The brain chip can pinpoint cancer cells through differences in their electrical emissions compared...
Once millions used it to find out about their family histories – this week it was almost delisted. What went wrong?
Richard Scolyer was one of the world’s leading melanoma researchers when he was struck with a brain tumour. Facing likely death, his team made him a guinea pig for his own medicine
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Richard Scolyer was fully engaged in the business of living when he suddenly received a death sentence. A person more alive would be hard to find. As an endurance...
In a highly anticipated visit, Grimace, the adored purple McDonald’s character, has arrived in South Africa! This is yet another exciting milestone for our fans and customers in our nearly 30 years in South Africa. Grimace will be landing at OR Tambo International Airport to kick off a nationwide tour that promises to blend fun […]
A rare variation of the phenomenon in which people’s senses are intermingled involves the mind’s eye seeing speech in captions. Scientists believe the condition arises from excessive neural connectivity and stimulation
Imagine having a conversation with someone and seeing each word they use appear before your eyes like subtitles in a film, or even as speech bubbles near the speaker’s mouth....
Advocates urge government to allow ‘precision breeding’ to combat disease, but RSPCA warns of ethical dangers
Ministers are preparing to introduce legislation that will permit the growing of gene-edited crops in England and Wales. But the new legislation will not cover the use of this technology to create farm animals that have increased resistance to disease or lower carbon footprints.
The...
Cambridge home of the engineer who developed fuel system used on Apollo 11 is to receive a blue plaque
It has been nearly 70 years since Francis Thomas Bacon developed a source of clean green energy that would help power the first moon landing and change the course of history.
Yet, few are aware of the Cambridge-based engineer, known as Tom, whose invention of the first working hydrogen-oxygen...
Indonesia has banned the sale of Google Pixel phones over the tech giant’s failure to meet investment regulations, its industry ministry said, days after blocking sales of Apple’s iPhone 16.
The YouTuber hired the firm to look into claims that a co-host had sent inappropriate messages to a minor.
The false claim, which has circulated in recent elections, is based on a misunderstanding of how votes are collected and reported.
The change, starting next Friday, lifts a dominant player in artificial intelligence over its chip-making rival, which has struggled to keep up.
The gathering had nothing to do with the election. That didn’t stop conspiracy theorists from spreading falsehoods.
Though a larger coalition of fact checkers has disbanded, a team of students and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is still working to document how lies online threaten to undermine this year’s presidential race.
Dancers and audiences are being fitted with electrode caps as part of a massive neurological study into how we respond to live performance – and the findings go far beyond what was first imagined
The gel felt cold on my scalp and I had to forget how silly I must have looked, because we were in the midst of some serious science. This was back in 2021, anyway, still in the land of anti-bac and...
“If I had $1 billion, how would I try to influence the results of this election?”