A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they…
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Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy. First, the gas in the…
In the 1987 classic film RoboCop, the deceased Detroit cop Alex Murphy is reborn as a cyborg. He has a…
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots based on large language models are known to occasionally make things up, including scientific and legal citations.…
Gravity pulls us to Earth, a lesson you learn viscerally the first time you fall. Isaac Newton described gravity as…
Imagine a tribe of uncontacted hunter-gatherers in the deepest Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists airdrop dozens of smartphones loaded with social media…
We are constantly fed a version of AI that looks, sounds and acts suspiciously like us. It speaks in polished…
The shortage of blood for medical use is a global challenge. South Africa is not exempt. Blood collection organisations such as…
Ideally, artificial intelligence (AI) agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans want conflicting things? My…
Three South African environmental and climate justice organisations took the South African government to court in November 2021, to challenge…