Science

Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, which continues to play a key role in the ongoing fight against Covid-19, represents one of the most significant scientific breakthroughs of our time. The widespread effectiveness of…
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Fragmenting planets sweeping extremely close to their stars might be the cause of mysterious cosmic blasts of radio waves.Milliseconds-long fast radio bursts, or FRBs, erupt from distant cosmic locales. Some of these bursts…
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Pick of the weekMandyNicolas Cage in Mandy. Photograph: XYZ Films/AllstarThis bizarre 2018 film is another staging post in the cult renaissance of Nicolas Cage – one that will probably reach its apogee this Friday with the release of The…
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Newly discovered Fermi arcs that can be controlled through magnetism could be the future of electronics based on electron spins.These new Fermi arcs were discovered by a team of researchers from Ames Laboratory and Iowa State University, as…
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You will not remember this awful remake, for good reason. While the original was a classic piece of British cinema famed for its ambiguous (and literal) cliffhanger ending, this was a charmless hunk of dreck that ends with – no joke – Seth…
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In a time of geopolitical chaos and inflation, Simon Mikhailovich’s extreme wealth preservation strategies don’t seem so paranoid.Cyberattacks. Inflation. Pandemic. Is your money safe?The question is asked by Simon Mikhailovich, a…
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Twenty-five scientists have pasted pages of scientific papers to the windows of the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, and glued their hands to the glass to highlight the climate science they said the government was…
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Basic Education minister Angie Motshekga says her department is moving forward with plans to incorporate mother-tongue languages at the country’s schools. Answering a recent parliamentary Q&A, Motshekga said her department values…
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The research agenda in Africa should emerge from the grassroots, says educational measurement specialist and former engineer Connie Nshemereirwe.An alumna of the international young scientists’ society the Global Young Academy, where…
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Our nation's toughest challenges of unemployment, poverty and inequality cannot be addressed without dealing with the elephant in the room - the dismal state of our education system, writes Mmusi Maimane. In South Africa today, two…
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