Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman, who helped pave the way for Covid-19 vaccines, have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
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The CEO of Jeff Bezos’s space company Blue Origin, Bob Smith, will step down at the end of the year.
When a Virgin Galactic flight soared into space on 8 September, there were two fossils of ancient prehuman relatives aboard.
Stellenbosch-based engineers have received a R200-million contract to produce 60 receivers for the SKA radio telescope.
Following quickly on the success of India’s moon landing, the country’s space agency launched a rocket to study the sun.
Earthquakes like Wednesday’s Joburg tremblor are likely to reoccur, according to the Council for Geoscience.
India will make its second attempt to land on the moon on Wednesday, just days after a Russian lander crashed.
South Africa has said it will partner with China on space exploration in the race with the US for lunar dominance.
As news of the failure of Russia’s lunar mission broke, India said Chandrayaan-3 was on course for a moon landing this week.
The World Health Organisation reported 619 000 deaths from malaria in 2021, most of them in Africa.