Winter in some parts of South Africa is a time of low (or no) rainfall and high fire danger. Sheldon Strydom studies the ...

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For nearly a century, scientists around the world have been searching for dark matter—an invisible substance believed to make ...

A new study led by University of Houston researchers, in collaboration with planetary scientists worldwide, suggests Uranus ...

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Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have revealed the structure of a key protein involved in ...

Research in the International Journal of Reasoning-based Intelligent Systems has shown how artificial intelligence can be ...

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When millions of people turn off their lights for Earth Hour each year, something remarkable happens in the night sky above ...

Proteomics International's subsidiary OxiDx Pty Ltd, in collaboration with the University of Western Australia, has published ...