Listen, we know we’re a fun country to skinner about, but international news outlets occasionally take their reporting on South African stories to sensational heights.
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?
The research team collected data on penguin breeding pairs from censuses conducted at 26 colonies in South Africa and Namibia between 1979 and 2023 to determine the rate of decline and the species’ conservation status.
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.
Volunteers were deliberately exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, so that it could be studied in great detail.
While the idea sounds loopy, the actual science has been around since 2018.
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What’s worse than finding a worm in your salad? Finding a host of deadly bacteria, unfortunately.
The papyrus manuscript, which dates to the fourth or fifth century, was thought to be an insignificant piece of writing.
Surprisingly, it wasn’t aliens.
Every year the world produces a staggering 10 billion kilograms of coffee waste and most of it ends up in landfills.
The whole thing seems a little too magical to be true, but Japanese scientists based at Kyoto University Hospital have proven over the last decade that the possibility of tooth regrowth is realistically within reach.
The degrees of separation is a real-world thing.
It sounds like sci-fi, but it’s just the latest mad offering from the US government’s long-running experimental X-Plane series.
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.
South Africans will have to wait until 30 November 2030 for the skies to turn dark over Mzansi, Botswana, Namibia, and Lesotho.
The spherical damper, named Damper Baby, moves back and forth during earthquakes or typhoons, which are common occurrences on the island.
The shoe itself looks the way tofu tastes (crappy), but it is a step closer to a more sustainable way of producing animal- and plastic-free clothing.
As the ice melts into the ocean, meltwater moves from the poles toward the equator, which slows the speed of the Earth’s rotation.
The findings seem to indicate that too many carbs will not just make you unhealthy, but ugly too.
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.
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.
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).
Some parts of the Japanese peninsula rose up to four metres, shifting the position of coastlines and leaving some ports dry.
I don’t know about you, but when I miss an hour of my precious night’s sleep, I can barely cope the next day.
“There’s tons of nuance there.”