Do ants hold the blueprint for robot navigation?
In the vastness of the Sahara desert live small scavenging creatures that must rate as…
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Malaria control: The great mosquito hunt
From dogs to balloons, researchers are using unorthodox ways to find out where malaria vectors…
Solar victory … Is Queensland Australia powering the way forward?
As early as 2018, solar could be economically viable to power big cities. By 2040…
Smartphones make music industry sing
Forget laptops and landlines, for an increasing number of Africans access to the Internet happens…
Smartphone app turns tourists into agents against illegal wildlife trade.
The Taronga Conservation Society in Australia, in partnership with TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network,…
Smart labels can reduce 1.27 billion tones of food wastage
A printed temperature sensor developed by PST Sensors, a nanotechnology company started by Cape Town…
Poachers beware! Spies in the sky protect rhinos
The drone or UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) is being demilitarised and finding employment elsewhere. One…