Da Vinci Surgical Robots Have Performed More Than 600 Surgeries At Groote...
[imagesource:picryl] Clinicians and staff from Tygerberg and Groote Schuur Hospitals celebrated the success of the da Vinci robotic surgery programmes and their impact on services as it was revealed...
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A ‘Mutated’ Indonesian Tribe Has Genetically Adapted To Being Underwater [Video]
[imagesource:gh1tv/facebook] Kevin Costner’s creepy webs and gross gills behind his ears in Waterworld may have just been (bad) science fiction, but now an Indonesian tribe who spends nearly 60% of...
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Amazon South Africa Is Now Live
[imagesource:wikimediacommons] After ‘officially’ announcing the pending launch of its South African marketplace in October 2023, Amazon South Africa has now gone live. Local shoppers can now get free...
View ArticleScientists Have Identified A ‘Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon’ Gene
[imagesource:needpix] ‘Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon’ was a popular game in the eighties and nineties, requiring players to link celebrities to the actor in as few steps as possible via the movies they...
View ArticleWestern Cape Users Warned To Update Their Pre-Paid Electricity Meters To...
[imagesource:kandua] The Western Cape Government has warned citizens that they only have 200 days left to update their water and pre-paid electricity meters “before they stop working on 24 November...
View ArticleAnother Canister Of Radioactive Material Found At Local Scrapyard
[imagesource:jpsmith/facebook] Radioactive materials in South Africa are being lost at the same rate as car keys after yet another canister of hazardous radioactive material was found at a scrapyard in...
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Apple Just Released The Next Generation Of iPads
[imagesource:apple] At the ‘Let Loose’ event yesterday, Apple couldn’t help gushing over how cool their new tablet line is. The world has been granted a couple of new iPad Pro models with OLED and M4...
View Article‘Societal Disruption In The Next Five Years’– World’s Leading Climate...
[imagesource:needpix] Hundreds of the world’s leading climate scientists say that the planet is headed for at least 2.5C of heating in this century, with disastrous results for humanity. The...
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NASA Releases New Visualisation Of What It Would Be Like To Be Swallowed By A...
[imagesource:wikimediacommons] If you’re the kind of person who walks around life with a near-constant and quiet call of the void ringing out in the background, then this new NASA visualisation will be...
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In Case You Missed The Southern Lights Show On Full Display Over Parts Of...
[imagesource: Facebook/Gianluca de Gasparis/SEVERE WEATHER AND INFORMATION CENTRE SA] Saffas only had a moment to feel slighted by the sky on Friday, when folks from across Europe, in the United States...
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How Much Of This Year’s Electioneering In SA Is Backed By AI?
[imagesource:canva] It’s getting to a point where we hear the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) so frequently, it barely shocks us anymore. A bug-eyed, digitally-enhanced pageant crowing Miss AI with a...
View ArticleSoon We Should Be Able To Grow Teeth Back, Thanks To Science
[imagesource:unsplash] In theory, this latest advancement in medical technology may leave you feeling a bit naar if you think about the details for too long, but in practice, dental frontiers are being...
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Saudi Arabia’s Latest OTT Project Envisions A Massive New Marina For...
[imagesource:neom] Though its initial plans for the Line seem to have been scaled back – by a lot – Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious, and at times impractical, vision to remake the desert country into a...
View ArticleDemo Video Of New ChatGPT Will Leave You Speechless – Like Scarlett Johansson...
[imagesource: Warner Bros.] The new version of ChatGPT is closer than ever to that science fiction scenario. OpenAI has upgraded ChatGPT’s voice mode into something more like a Her-inspired voice...
View ArticleScientists Discover Amazing Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds
[imagesource:pexels] Baristas might soon be able to add ‘part-time engineer’ along with ‘DJ’ to their resumes, thanks to Australian researchers. A group of full-time engineers at RMIT University have...
View ArticleThanks To Load-Shedding, South Africa Faces Looming Battery Recycling Crisis,...
[imagesource:flickr] You probably haven’t thought of this off-shoot problem of load-shedding, have you? Don’t worry, the same goes for me and the whole of South Africa. Amid load-shedding and the shift...
View ArticleVatican To Hold Press Conference On ‘Apparitions And Supernatural Phenomena’...
[imagesource:gencraft/ai] You might have noticed a wave of tabloid headlines spread this week claiming the Vatican would be making an announcement about “aliens”. “Pope to hold press conference on...
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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out How Egyptians Built The Pyramids
[imagesource:rawpixel] Scientists believe they may have solved the mystery of how 31 pyramids, including the world-famous Giza complex, were built in Egypt more than 4,000 years ago. Surprisingly, it...
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East Rand Man Finds Billions Worth Of ‘Invisible Gold’ In Jozi’s Mine Dumps
[imagesource: Steve Chingwaru] Having been born in Benoni, I thought of the orange mine dumps dotted around the East Rand as nothing but landfills, eyesores, and the bane of everyone’s dry throats and...
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You Could Take A Trip In A Space Elevator Sooner Than You Might Think
[imagesource:gencraftai] The key element towards bringing the “Space Elevator” dream to life is in the works. Until now, the idea seems like a sci-fi fantasy but since the discovery of CNT by a...
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