Geneticists, led by Harvard Medical School’s George Church, are looking to bring the woolly mammoth, last seen roughly 10 000 years ago during the Ice Age, back to life.
Having ticked the space flight box, Jeff Bezos is now investing in a new “rejuvenation” start-up with some very lofty goals.
Dr. Kathryn Mannix, a palliative care doctor, believes it is best to break the taboo that exists around death and explains what happens to the body in those final moments.
A new study suggests that a global societal collapse is very likely “within a few decades”, but there are a few countries that could keep civilisation afloat.
Archaeologist and biological anthropologist Keneiloe Molopyane, a member of the second generation of South Africa’s ‘underground astronauts’, has an inspirational story to tell.
NASA is designing new spacesuits for the Artemis missions, which will be taking the first woman and the first person of colour to the moon in 2024.
Researchers at Cornell University in New York have made some interesting discoveries into the ‘how’ aspect of an acid trip.
The “Star Formation in Gaseous Environments” project has released a video of the most beautiful, realistic, and highest resolution simulation of a star being born.
Bunny the “Sheepadoodle/ Existentialist”, famous on TikTok and Instagram, is known for talking by pressing buttons that correlate with words. Recently, she’s been asking some hard-hitting questions.
Rainwater has activated a melted amalgam of nuclear fuel at Chernobyl, which is beginning to react, causing a headache for scientists.
This study of 15 French people who lived in a cave for 40 days, with no connection to the outside world, produced some interesting results.
This bacon does everything that normal bacon does; it looks like bacon, it smells like bacon, and it tastes like bacon. But it is not bacon.
Mars now has a ridge named after a Namibian man who studied at the University of Stellenbosch.
What would happen if a pandemic had to wipe out a good portion of the human population? We turn to an infectious disease scholar for insight.
The whitest white has just been created, and it has the power to cool down buildings and other structures quite substantially.
Ask the general public to answer this question – the universe is expanding, but what is it expanding into? – and you’ll get a very mixed bag of responses.
A tiny little wobble from a particle called a muon could potentially shake the foundations of everything we think we know.
There must be something in the water, because more twins are being born today than at any other time in history.
UKZN’s Aerospace Systems Research Group successfully launched a hybrid sounding rocket just shy of 18 kilometres into Earth’s atmosphere, setting a new African record.
For the first time in history, NASA has managed to capture actual footage of a rover landing on Mars, which includes sounds from the Red Planet.
When NASA needed a way to test astronauts’ hearing in space, they turned to a Johannesburg-based company to get the job done.
The Perseverance Mars rover launched in July last year, and has just about completed its journey, which is set to culminate in a nail-biting “seven minutes of terror”.
We all know someone who goes full ‘Hulk smash’ when it hits 4PM and they have been away from food for too long. Perhaps understanding why will prevent future meltdowns.
Surgeons have successfully performed an incredibly risky double transplant, giving a New Jersey man a new face and hands.
Medical practitioners and the creators of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine weighed in on how long they think we’ll be battling COVID-19.
People with a history of significant allergic reactions should not have the Pfizer/BioNTech jab just yet, regulators say, after two NHS workers had allergic reactions earlier this week.
We can all be relieved that Elon Musk’s Starship SN8 prototype wasn’t manned when it plummeted back to Earth.
South Africa participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study at the grade 5 and grade 9 level, and the results are embarrassing.
An online tool, created by MIT scientists, uses simple data to work out how long you’d be safe in a room with someone who has COVID-19.
Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh was killed after his car was allegedly ambushed in a district east of Tehran.