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Occasionally, a mutation will give the virus a better chance of surviving and reproducing itself, and will result in a new population (known as a new lineage)
The former president is in a corner and largely isolated. His only option is to stir the pot so much that it gives him some kind of bargaining power.
Less than 30% of researchers worldwide are women. The biases and perceptions that keep women and girls out of STEM must be tackled.
She was the glue that bound younger artists together, helping them navigate the volatile terrain of the music industry.
There is a need to be alive to tensions between short- and long-term objectives, as well as the assumptions we hold around what we consider to be “better” and how to achieve it.
The Constitutional Court described Zuma’s lack of cooperation with the commission as “reprehensible”.
Airport passenger terminals are often designed to flaunt a city and country. Embakasi’s rudimentary terminal made Nairobi’s newest airport more colonial utility than colonial showpiece.
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Radio galaxies may be the oldest galaxy systems, providing clues to the evolution of galaxies.
If South Africa is serious about being able to supply anti-pandemic vaccines in future, it needs to rethink the scale of financial, technical and strategic investment into vaccine production.
D’après ce que nous savons actuellement sur la densité des radiogalaxies géantes dans le ciel, la probabilité d’en trouver deux dans cette région du ciel est extrêmement faible.
The African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team recently secured a provisional 270 million vaccine doses for African countries.
Based on what we currently know about the density of giant radio galaxies in the sky, the probability of finding two of them in this region is extremely small.
Creating a space where people feel safe to voice opinions, make mistakes and risk ridicule when offering an idea can have a significant effect on teams.
The best way to reduce the threat to eagles is to locate turbines away from areas that are most often used by the birds.
The creation of resources that are shared, accessible, and collectively owned and managed by communities has become a way for social entrepreneurs to contribute to community development.
Artificially dimming the sun, by injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere, could reduce the risk of Day Zero level droughts in Cape Town by more than 90% in the future.
Healthy soils are vital for food, biodiversity, and a healthy planet, but this below-ground world is often overlooked. The launch of the State of Knowledge of Soil Biodiversity Report highlights this.
There are three promising COVID-19 trials.
The HIV/AIDS response played out over a much longer trajectory than COVID-19. But it is, in some respects, a shining example of what can be achieved when countries and people work together.
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Chief research officer: Global Risk Governance Programme, Public Law Department, Faculty of Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Research Unit, University of Cape Town
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Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Cape Town
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Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town
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Senior Clinical Research Officer , University of Cape Town
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Emeritus Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer, Climate System Analysis Group, University of Cape Town
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Research Officer, Research Unit on the Economics of Excisable Products, University of Cape Town
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PhD student, University of Cape Town
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Professor in Biological Anthropology, Division of Clinical Anatomy and Biological Anthropology, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Anthropologist, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer (Political Economy), University of Cape Town
