Data breaches are becoming commonplace in both small and big tech companies. The most recent victim was Australian telecommunications company Optus, resulting in…
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Venus, often called Earth’s “evil twin” planet, formed closer to the Sun and has since evolved quite differently from our own…
We live in a world characterised by inequality, poverty, economic volatility, globalisation, climate change and ambiguity. In my own country, South Africa, residents have…
Telecommuting has the potential to reduce traffic congestion, but other factors, such as increasing the distance between home and work…
Hundreds of kilometres from shore, and covering two-thirds of the Earth’s surface, the high seas are a world that few…
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 in 1957, it represented humanity’s first significant foray into the cosmos. Our imagination was…
Tactical nuclear weapons have burst onto the international stage as Russian President Vladimir Putin, facing battlefield losses in eastern Ukraine,…
The human face is special. It is simultaneously public and personal. Our faces reveal sensitive information about us: who we…
In 2020, China’s Chang’e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of Moon rock and soil and brought it back…
Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot.…