This is Part 1 of a four-part Daily Maverick series. Look at the police-issued table of South African crime statistics, and the picture is, cautiously, improving. Murder is down. Robbery is down.

Fitness and wellness businesses are using infrared light as a new tool for weight loss and health benefits. Infrared light is an invisible part of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human body ...

“The [AI] current is moving whether you are ready or not, and preparation is the only thing that separates those who come out intact from those who do not.” From a trickle just a few years ago, AI use ...

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The ...

Gâteau invisible aux pommes (aka invisible apple cake) sounds like the kind of dessert that belongs behind glass in a Parisian cafe pastry case, not something you casually bake at home (and especially ...

Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and Penn professor Ezekiel Emanuel published a book about wellness on Jan. 6. The book — titled “Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life” — ...

Repairing a chair using an invisible part shows how damaged furniture can be fixed without changing its appearance. The focus is on the repair process and the clean final result. Warning issued as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The dark side of the moon is real — but it’s probably not ...

When Ewan Cunningham opens a new animation file, it is usually the start of a month-long ritual. At 27, the Scottish creator behind “Primal Space” has quietly built one of YouTube’s most compelling ...

This week, tech content creators began to suspect that AI was making it harder to share some of the most highly sought-after tech tutorials on YouTube, but now YouTube is denying that odd removals ...

As part of an AI-focused reorganization, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan told employees that it will offer voluntary buyouts, according to an internal company memo. At the same time, he emphasized that there ...

AI is “the next frontier” for YouTube, according to CEO Neal Mohan — and it might result in the video platform’s shrinking its employee headcount. Mohan, in a memo Wednesday to YouTube staffers, ...