NASA ruled out the possibility of the Apophis asteroid hitting earth in 2068 on Friday. It passed the planet earlier this month.

A new altitude record was set during a rocket launch in Overberg this week, and one South African minister has hailed the event as a ‘game-changer’.

The Women in Science programme was launched in 2010 to encourage the participation of young African women in science.

This is the first review of its kind that gives an African perspective of the challenges that women in these fields face. They are by no means unique to Africa.

Researchers say more needs to be done to boost public confidence about a COVID-19 vaccine.

Even if humanity stopped emitting greenhouse gases tomorrow, Earth will warm for centuries to come and oceans will rise by metres, according to a controversial climate change study published on 12 November 2020.

Africa represents the youngest and fastest growing population in the world. This makes intellectual investment an imperative, to harness talent that is a significant and growing share of the global population.

The new technology will ultimately help to track and protect Africa’s declining lion population, say scientists from Oxford University.

Researchers want to study every square inch of planet Earth. The problem is that some areas are challenging for humans to get to in order to monitor.

Seeing AI is an accessibility app that describes the world as seen through a smartphone camera.

Africa’s leading research, development and innovation organisation, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has reached a major milestone, marking 75 years of its existence

Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and textual analysis, image processing and all kinds of diagnosis and recognition systems.

Elon Musk has more ambitious goals, hoping to read and write thoughts and memories, enable telepathic communication and ultimately merge human and artificial intelligence (AI).

Human footprints in what would have been an ancient lake in Saudi Arabia indicate humans were migrating from Africa through Arabian interior.

Techniques to genetically-edit human embryos should not be used until they are proved to be reliable and safe, an international commission said Thursday, in the wake of a scandal over gene-modified babies in China two years ago.

Earth has changed dramatically since its early days. Use this map to see what your hometown looked like millions of years ago.

Water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding scientific debate.

Neuralink is prepared to show a working second version of the chip it first introduced back in 2019. If all goes according to plan, Musk intends to “show neurons firing in real-time”.

Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context.

Elon Musk’s Neuralink will be hosting a live webcast on Friday 28 August 2020 ‘to demonstrate a brain-machine interface’ which will help humans keep up with AI.

This research to do with ears could be helpful in the development of new hearing aids.

A woolly brown rhinoceros that weighed two tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing around 14 000 years ago. Was its demise caused by humans, or the warming climate of the time?

Very few academics or policymakers are talking about the impact of climate change on heritage. Yet heritage is essential for social wellbeing, for identity creation, for safeguarding traditional knowledge and livelihoods and for sustainable development.

People have searched for sex differences in human brains since at least the 19th century when scientist Samuel George Morton poured seeds and lead shot into human skulls to measure their volumes.

Previous work has found that Stonehenge’s smaller “bluestones” came from Wales, about 200 kilometres to the west, and the new study says that they and the sarsens were placed at the same time.