At the start of cosmic history, galaxies were big clouds of gas, and they grew by turning that gas into…
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Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then, over a dozen…
Conservationists analyse overwhelming volumes of ecological data in their work. For example, they might need to process decades of weather data or…
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope in South Africa have discovered the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever detected, opening a new radio…
Digital technologies create great opportunities, but the transformation they offer isn’t equally within reach of everyone. Access is determined by…
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…