Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio…
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One argument often used to quell concerns about the rising energy and resource demand of data centres is that artificial…
Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of everyday newsroom work across Africa. It has entered quietly through routine tasks such as transcription,…
A peacock feather in sunlight shifts from blue to green to bronze as you turn it. Photograph it, and this…
What happens to language when a growing amount of text published in the press, online and on social media is…
When you ask a large language model a question, the reply may include falsehoods, and if you challenge those statements…
“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might…
In 1973, Japanese food company Calbee started attaching free collectable baseball player cards to its potato chip packets (and continues to do so…