In early 2020, cybersecurity experts warned that cyberattacks were becoming more sophisticated, with cybercriminals exploiting artificial intelligence to launch increasingly complex attacks, and the sensitive data of the healthcare sector becoming a growing target....
By Dr Mark Nasila* Recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) show that climate change is affecting every region of our planet and that some of the changes — such as rising temperatures and sea levels — can only be arrested, but are...
By Dr Mark Nasila* Climate change affects everyone everywhere, but it’s potentially even more devastating for those in emerging markets who are less prepared for calamities and ill-equipped to rebuild after them. It’s also a potential impediment to the progress that...
‘The role of abstract mathematics in solving large or day-to-day problems is usually not perceived by most. It is seen as too abstract. But when you build abstract mathematics, you build more than just a mathematical theory or proof; you construct a new way of...
There has been very positive feedback on fundamano. The project presents mathematics concepts in an entertaining show that ‘takes you on a journey of appreciating the complexity of mathematics as something arising naturally by a need for a better solution to a...
Dr Uljana Hesse is a senior lecturer at the Department of Biotechnology at the University of the Western Cape (UWC, Bellville, South Africa). She is a specialist in genomics, and has extensive hands-on expertise in crop production, microbiology, biotechnology and...
