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Memories: A scene from Dreamscape, a play about the life and death of
teenager Tyisha Miller, who was shot by police in California.

Play moves between dreaming and escaping

American play Dreamscape finds parallels in South Africa

First step to reading your mind

First step to reading your mind

Mind reading a reality but it would require your permission and the removal of the top of your skull.

Scientists come across monstrous black holes

Scientists come across monstrous black holes

A team of astronomers have found the biggest black holes known to exist 300-million light years away — each one 10-billion times the size of our sun.

Women scientists claim Nobel prize for defying ageing

The discovery of a biological gatekeeper that prevents genetic code from fraying with age has won three American scientists this year’s Nobel prize.

Senegal warms to solar stoves

Researchers have sold over 1 000 solar stoves to rural families in Senegal to prove that the ovens can improve health and cut fuel consumption.

Virtual campuses: The education of the future?

An internet fantasy universe teeming with faux worlds devoted to socialising and video games is expanding to include virtual classrooms and universities. A new trend in online…

Lame-duck Bush back in the limelight

It has been a busy week for United States President George Bush. He has shuttled across the country, faced a barrage of questions from a hounding press pack and made some tough…

Google optimistic regulators won’t bar Yahoo!

Google believes regulators would not bar a potential business deal with Yahoo! because it would be ”non-exclusive” and falls short of an outright merger, a person familiar with…

Tuesday could see Hillary Clinton killed off

It did not look like a political wake. Senator Hillary Clinton emerged into a basketball stadium in Houston wearing a bright red jacket, beaming broadly and waving at thousands…

US court to review legality of lethal injection

The United States Supreme Court will on Monday take up the thorny issue of lethal injections in a bid to determine if this method of executing death-row inmates conforms with the…

Bill’s magic touch bolsters Hillary’s bid

Bill Clinton has never been one to avoid the limelight. Or stay on message. Last week, as he spearheaded a mission to rejuvenate his wife’s troubled presidential campaign, he…

Gehry sued over leaky university building

It was supposed to be a geek palace for some of the brightest people on the planet. Dissonant angles, sloping floors, an exterior that suggested some sort of implosion — these…

Capturing rhythm, meaning and narrativity

Literary lion Ngugi wa Thiong’o tells Niren Tolsi about the hurdles facing Africa and African writers and how they can be surmounted.