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Science
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Scientists Warn Of Atmospheric Risks As Musk’s Starlink Satellites Dominates The Skies
28 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists are sounding the alarm as companies like SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, race to blanket the skies with tens of thousands of internet satellites.
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Something Fascinating Yet Ominous Happens To The Human Brain While In Space
25 Nov 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Scientists took a deep dive into the minds of astronauts who spent six months aboard the International Space Station—and the findings are equal parts fascinating and a touch unsettling.
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Scientists Share Surprising Theories About Which Species Would “Rebuild Civilisation” If Humans Get Wiped Out
15 Nov 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
My Octopus Teacher? Well, scientists are suggesting that ‘my octopus empire’ may be more fitting, come the apocalypse.
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76 Child Sacrifice Victims, All With Their Chests Cut Open, Unearthed At Burial Site In Peru
06 Nov 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The children’s burial in this mound was possibly an offering to ‘energize the fields’.
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Adults Are Using Breast Milk As A Wellness Elixir And Hangover Cure, But Experts Have Doubts
10 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Even as far back as the first century, Pliny the Elder suggested it for fever and gout, as well as treating toxic bug bites.
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Film Director Peter Jackson Donates $10 Million To Help Bring Back The Dodo
04 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Jackson joins a group of celebrity investors who have now already contributed a total of $235 million to help Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences bring back the extinct creatures.
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People Are Using Vibrators to Relieve Their Migraines – And Science Backs It Up
01 Oct 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
While duct-taping a Happy Rabbit Slimline to your forehead seems extreme, many swear that it offers instant relief from the pain.
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How The Longest-Living Mammal Was Found With 1880s-Era Harpoon In Its Side
20 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Imagine walking around with a thorn in your foot for over a century.
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Table Mountain National Park Issues Quicksand Warning For Noordhoek Beach
17 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Despite a favourite way to kill off the bad guys in cowboy movies, it does not happen in real life. People and animals can get stuck in it, but they don’t get sucked down to the bottom – they float on the surface.
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The Earth Vibrated For Nine Days After 200-Meter Mega-Tsunami In Greenland Last Year [Video]
13 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The event took place last September and was picked up by sensors all over the world, leading scientists to investigate where it had come from.
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Scientists Use Ingredient Found In Doritos To Turn Mouse’s Skin Transparent
09 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The capacity to briefly make skin translucent could offer a variety of benefits in biology, diagnostics and even cosmetics.
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You’re Not Going To Believe It But A Startup Wants To Sell You Sunlight At Night From Space
28 Aug 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
They’re doing it by sending a big mirror into space, aboard a satellite that’s able to point said mirror in such a way as to reflect the sun’s light onto a precise location on Earth.
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A Common Dietary Supplement Has Been Found To Reduce Aggression By 30%
02 Aug 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
We can all agree that the world could do with less aggression.
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International Media Outlets Are Now Saying Cape Town Seals With Rabies Are Attacking People
17 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Listen, we know we’re a fun country to skinner about, but international news outlets occasionally take their reporting on South African stories to sensational heights.
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Harvard Researchers Suggest Aliens Could Be “Walking Among Us”
16 Jul 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
A recent paper from researchers at Harvard University has put an interesting twist on one of humanity’s biggest questions; are we alone in the universe?
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Desperate Push For African Penguins To Be Recognised As “Critically Endangered” As Numbers Plummet
16 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The research team collected data on penguin breeding pairs from censuses conducted at 26 colonies in South Africa and Namibia between 1979 and 2023 to determine the rate of decline and the species’ conservation status.
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‘One Giant Pee For Mankind’ – Spacesuits That Recycle Astronauts’ Urine Are Now A Reality
15 Jul 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
Sometimes the seemingly strange ideas are the best ones. To infini-pee and beyond!
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Cape Town Will Host A Global Astronomy Gathering Next Month
12 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Like a Woodstock for star nerds, over 2,000 international astronomers will descend on Cape Town for the first global astronomy gathering on African soil.
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They Finally Know Why Some People Never Got COVID-19
02 Jul 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Volunteers were deliberately exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, so that it could be studied in great detail.
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Prison Of The Future Wants To Implant Prisoners With ‘Memories That Show Victim’s Perspective’ [Video]
28 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
While the idea sounds loopy, the actual science has been around since 2018.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
19 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The rand is heading to R17/$ as post-election optimism buoys markets, SA makes Top 10 list of ‘hottest men’ in the world, Justin Timberlake charged with DWI, The best way to travel around Europe, Nvidia becomes world’s most valuable company, and South Africa’s new telephone and cellphone number codes.
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Scientists Explain Why Lettuce Is Most Likely To Carry E. Coli And Other Deadly Contaminations
18 Jun 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
What’s worse than finding a worm in your salad? Finding a host of deadly bacteria, unfortunately.
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‘Extraordinary’ Newly-Deciphered Manuscript Details Story From Jesus’ Childhood
12 Jun 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The papyrus manuscript, which dates to the fourth or fifth century, was thought to be an insignificant piece of writing.
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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out How Egyptians Built The Pyramids
17 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Surprisingly, it wasn’t aliens.
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Scientists Discover Amazing Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds
16 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Every year the world produces a staggering 10 billion kilograms of coffee waste and most of it ends up in landfills.
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Soon We Should Be Able To Grow Teeth Back, Thanks To Science
13 May 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The whole thing seems a little too magical to be true, but Japanese scientists based at Kyoto University Hospital have proven over the last decade that the possibility of tooth regrowth is realistically within reach.
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Scientists Have Identified A ‘Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon’ Gene
07 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The degrees of separation is a real-world thing.
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With No Rudders Or Flaps, This Bonkers New X-Plane Uses Holes In Its Wings To Hit Mach Speeds
30 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
It sounds like sci-fi, but it’s just the latest mad offering from the US government’s long-running experimental X-Plane series.
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Scientists Say They Have Found New Evidence Of An Unknown Planet In Our Solar System
19 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
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Update: North America Gets The Eskom (And UFO!) Treatment During The 2024 Total Solar Eclipse [Video]
09 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
South Africans will have to wait until 30 November 2030 for the skies to turn dark over Mzansi, Botswana, Namibia, and Lesotho.
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