It is not known how the sharks have been feeding on the drug, but a bunch of theories exist.
A recent paper from researchers at Harvard University has put an interesting twist on one of humanity’s biggest questions; are we alone in the universe?
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
Like a Woodstock for star nerds, over 2,000 international astronomers will descend on Cape Town for the first global astronomy gathering on African soil.
On Sunday, a privately owned Chinese space rocket met a fiery demise near a bustling city.
The clock is ticking as the capsule can only stay docked at the station for 45 days.
Researchers estimated the potential damage caused by the low-earth orbit internet satellites burning up in the atmosphere and releasing aluminium oxides.
Amidst a trove of glittering golden treasures from the Iberian Bronze Age, a pair of corroded objects, made with what researchers believe is metal from some far-flung place, may be the most precious of all.
Honestly, this video alone might make you lose your head all together.
Night skies were lit up by these bright colour lights in locations where they don’t normally shine as a severe solar storm supercharged the phenomenon.
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
As South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure project of the last 30 years since democracy, MeerKAT has become a beacon of space innovation and opportunity on the African continent.
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
To understand what it might be like for humans to make it to the real Mars, and stick it out, behavioural ecologist Kelly Weinersmith gave her two cents.
First found in 2023, the exoplanet has a mass of 3.02 Earths and it takes 19.3 days to complete one orbit of its star.
About half a billion years ago most of the vertebrates on earth had tails, but migration from trees to a more land-based environment is believed to have hastened our tail loss.
Researchers were nearby to record the event, with one saying it was both “devastating and intensely powerful”.
Piercing through layers of snow and ice, the strange structure has been raising eyebrows worldwide.
The frog is alive, AKA not decaying in death, and yet it has some fungi hitching a ride on its body. Obviously scientists are baffled.
On the undesirable roster of illnesses, cancer and HIV are notably high-ranking. One Californian man found himself afflicted with both, and then potentially cured of both after a miraculous donor treatment.
This week, a scientific journal published research featuring bogus imagery made with Midjourney, one of the most popular AI image generators. You’re going to want to see it but don’t believe it.
There are a very special few individuals who possess abilities that defy complete explanation by experts.
The proposed Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be 91 kilometres long, dwarfing its predecessor, the 27 kilometres Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
Only two northern white rhinos remain on earth, both female. The last male, Sudan, died in 2018, leaving the rhino subspecies doomed to extinction.
Scientists examining a unique society of mixed-species dolphins in Greece recently discovered a unique specimen with thumbs.
The AI revolution is speeding ahead, and it’s taking our brains with it.
At around 3,600 metres above sea level, in a place where no roads go, scientists found the exotic prehistoric world new to science.
In an extraordinary turn of events, the elusive De Winton’s golden mole, believed extinct for nearly 90 years, has been detected in South Africa.
A beam of cosmic energy so powerful that it carried the equivalent of hundreds of billions of volts of electricity hit Earth in 2021 and scientists are mystified by this for a couple of reasons.