Clearing water-guzzling and soil-damaging alien invasive plants costs South Africa several hundred million rands every year.

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After eons underground, it was discovered by accident. Within a couple of decades, it was already under threat.

The Dacia Sandrider is a £1million, Prodrive-built Rally-Raid special that now has an outright Dakar Rally win under its belt ...

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A Japanese-led research team has developed AUN, a groundbreaking immune-independent bacterial cancer therapy that uses two harmonized bacteria to destroy tumors even in patients with weakened immune ...

Scientists found that microgravity fundamentally slows the infection cycle, pushing phages to become hyper-efficient at binding to hosts.

Lightning has captured people's fascination for millennia. It's embedded in mythology, religion and popular culture. Think of ...