TUESDAY, 23 DECEMBER 2025, 09:07
Trump’s renomination of billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman is a tale of politics, ambition and vanity
It used to be that once your star had fallen in Donald Trump’s orbit, it was destined never to rise again. Any number of discarded former allies stretching back to Trump’s first term of office could testify as much.
One who has emerged from a political black hole to return to the...
Standard Bank now has the second-lowest PayShap fees in the country behind TymeBank, where they remain free.
Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of...
The Southern African Large Telescope near Sutherland is celebrating 20 years of observing the sky.
It will be able to monitor changes in brain function just minutes after weapon use, scientists say.
Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.
Lyu Jae-cheol has been appointed as new CEO of LG Electronics to strengthen the fundamental competitiveness of its core businesses.
Parents are paying premium fees for education models that can’t match what online home schooling delivers.
Samsung’s unveiling of its first trifold smartphone marks another escalation in the foldables arms race – and another moment where Apple is conspicuously absent.
Social media users have called the luxury Italian fashion brand’s artificial intelligence-made adverts “cheap” and “lazy”.
NCP Chlorchem has embarked on one of South Africa’s biggest private industrial solar deployments.
PayShap adoption grows, but inconsistent bank fees and limited access still hinder its inclusion ambitions in South Africa.
In today’s newsletter: As suppliers get ready to meet policy makers and space agencies at the industry’s largest gathering, a look at the exploration and exploitation of space
Good morning. This week Glasgow hosts one of the UK’s largest ever gatherings of the space industry at Space-Comm. With representatives of Nasa, the UK and Scottish governments and the UK space agency among 2,000 space...
Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first multi-folding smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold.
Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher
As a child, Miquel López García was fascinated by the conch shell, kept in the bathroom, that his father’s family in the southern Spanish region of Almería had blown to warn their fellow villagers of rising rivers and approaching flood waters.
The hours he spent...
John Giannandrea, hired from Google, is leaving after the release of a new Siri was postponed. Apple has fallen behind rivals in efforts to develop A.I. products.
Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy
For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent...
EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration
The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic this year was the smallest and shortest-lived since 2019, according to European space scientists, who described the finding as a “reassuring sign” of the layer’s recovery.
The yearly gap in what scientists have called “planetary...
Agreement also calls for NHS to increase net price it pays for new medicines by 25%
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The UK government has sealed a deal with Donald Trump guaranteeing that zero tariffs will remain on the imports of UK pharmaceuticals into the US and commits Britain to higher spending on NHS drugs.
The agreement, announced on Monday, secures continued investment by UK pharma...
WHO urges countries to make drugs such as Mounjaro more accessible to people and asks drugs companies to lower prices
Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro offer huge potential to tackle soaring obesity globally that will affect 2 billion people worldwide by 2030, the World Health Organization has said.
Their proven effectiveness in helping people lose weight means the medications represent “a...
The label claims Haven’s dance hit I Run was made using AI trained on the award-winning singer’s voice.