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Matthew du Plessis is the Mail & Guardian's former managing editor and chair of the Adamela Trust. He writes on the environment, dinosaurs, particle accelerators, evolutionary anthropology, genomics and super-continental fields of molten lava.
New undersea cables will massively increase bandwidth to the continent
After years of data processing at the Wits laboratory, one evolutionary scientist has constructed a 3D model of a baby Massospondylus
New tech is poised to help vaccines last longer and reach many more people with far less fuss
Mammoths and sabre-tooth cats once roamed the continent, but were our ancient ancestors responsible for their disappearance?
After stumbling on mention of tracks in a dissertation from the 1960s, scientists are shedding new light on the dinosaurs that hotfooted it through SA’s prehistoric past
Scientists have the technology (and apparently the inclination) to make fungus better, stronger, faster
Scientists are remapping the stories of ancient civilisations by shooting them with lasers
Super-strains of bacteria need a new nemesis, and scientists reckon they’ve found one
Sluggish snails prevailed, but Homo erectus may have died out because, honestly, why bother?
They promise the earth and never deliver, but sometimes the world’s leaders give us the sun, the moon and the stars
CRISPR-Cas9’s responsible use has been welcomed as an important stride in medical research and molecular biology
We used to laugh at the idea that Mars had canals — now it turns out there’s a whole fricking lake
There have been many success stories in efforts to extend the human lifespan in the past 200 years
We’ve just learned that brain-hijacking parasites can bend even uninfected bystanders to their will
The humble honeybee is catching up to humans in the arithmetic game, but there is quite literally nothing to worry about
Cheap and efficient space travel would be a golden goose for any nation that cracked it
Let us entertain the notion — if only for a moment — that cephalopods may be from space. How would we go about testing the hypothesis?
