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What does it mean to be an inventor? In patent law, designed to protect the intellectual property of inventors, officials…
At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. The…
There are significant disparities in South Africa’s education system. Schools are divided into quintiles, from one to five; the poorest, in quintile…
If you ask children what their favourite dinosaurs are, the answers will undoubtedly include T. rex, Triceratops and maybe Brachiosaurus. Those children answering the…
You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try…
Can we find alien technology? That is the ambitious goal of the Galileo Project, launched this week by Harvard astrophysicist Avi…
Robopets are artificially intelligent machines created to look like an animal (usually a cat or dog, but they can be any animal).…
Military planning is a complicated endeavour, calling upon experts in logistics and infrastructure to predict resource availability and technological advancements.…
It usually takes 10 to 15 years to develop a new drug, and they cost around US$2.6 billion each. Because it’s…