Amazon and Google have introduced a multi-cloud networking service to meet growing demand for reliable connectivity.

Elusive planet will make a pre-dawn appearance as it seems to stray from the sun

We start December with one of the best chances to see Mercury this year, at least for the northern hemisphere. The elusive inner planet never strays far from the sun but this week it reaches the configuration known as the greatest western elongation.

This means that from our vantage point on Earth, the planet...

Labour announces prevention programme as well as efforts to re-engage people who have fallen out of medical care

Ending new HIV transmissions in England by 2030 is within reach thanks to an action plan that will include routine testing at A&Es, the government has said.

The HIV action plan, to be unveiled on World Aids Day on Monday, aims to re-engage the thousands of people who have left HIV...

A close relationship to industry and an award-winning incubation lab have created a successful start-up ecosystem centred on Stellenbosch University.

Understanding the surprising mechanism behind apathy can help unlock scientific ways to boost your motivation

We all know people with very different levels of motivation. Some will go the extra mile in any endeavour. Others just can’t be bothered to put the effort in. We might think of them as lazy – happiest on the sofa, rather than planning their latest project. What’s behind this...

Unique properties of fungi have led to groundbreaking innovations in recent years, from nappies to electronics

From the outside, it looks like any ordinary nappy – one of the tens of billions that end up in landfill each year. But the Hiro diaper comes with an unusual companion: a sachet of freeze-dried fungi to sprinkle over a baby’s gloopy excretions.

The idea is to kickstart a catalytic...

Peach Payments tracked a Black Friday-linked transaction worth R1.09-million as consumers opened their wallets and spent big.

Cell C’s share price moved sharply higher on its second day of trade on the JSE on Friday, closing 12.7% up at R31.

Eskom on Friday reported profit after tax of R24.3-billion for the six months to the end of September.

Experts say the deal may put fans at risk as the Catalan club tries to relieve its financial woes.

RFK Jr signed order withdrawing rule that would mandate testing for the cancer-linked toxin in talc-based makeup

The Food and Drug Administration is poised to kill a proposed rule that would require testing for toxic asbestos in talc-based cosmetics, a problem that has been linked to cancer.

Talc is widely used, including in cosmetics, food, medication and personal care products. The order was...

Expert advisers likely to recommend only a few thousand men with genetic variant should be eligible for tests

Prostate cancer screening will not be made routinely available for the vast majority of men across the UK, according to the expected recommendations from a panel of expert government health advisers.

The UK national screening committee is expected to only recommend screening for men...

A Discovery Bank client spent R500 000 in a single Black Friday purchase as big-ticket transactions surged across platforms.

MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita unpacks South Africa’s prepaid battle, MTN’s fibre strategy and how AI could reshape the sector.

A .info domain immediately clarifies your website’s purpose, building user trust through transparency and intention.

Schneider Electric’s intelligent, resilient infrastructure is reshaping South Africa’s AI-driven data centres.

Research team uses range of novel methods and equipment to analyse ‘extraordinary’ Durrington pit circle

The presence of an extraordinary circle of yawning pits created by Neolithic people near Stonehenge has been proved thanks to a novel combination of scientific techniques, a team of archaeologists is claiming.

The architects of Stonehenge may have had the heavens in mind when they built the...

Rachel Reeves’s statement was thrown into chaos after journalists were able to access the document early.

Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance

In the early hours of 28 May 2005, Isabelle Dinoire woke up in a pool of blood. After fighting with her family the night before, she turned to alcohol and sleeping tablets “to forget”, she later said.

Reaching for a cigarette out of habit, she realized...