Matthew Du Plessis

Matthew du Plessis is the Mail & Guardian's former managing editor and chair of the Adamela Trust. He writes on the environment, dinosaurs, particle accelerators, evolutionary anthropology, genomics and super-continental fields of molten lava.

Inside Facebook’s big bet on Africa

Africa Matthew Du Plessis - 25 May 2020

New undersea cables will massively increase bandwidth to the continent

Easter eggs from the most South African dinosaur

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 9 Apr 2020

After years of data processing at the Wits laboratory, one evolutionary scientist has constructed a 3D model of a baby Massospondylus

The vax revolution will be filmed

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 6 Mar 2020

New tech is poised to help vaccines last longer and reach many more people with far less fuss

Grass roots of Ice-Age extinctions

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 14 Feb 2020

Mammoths and sabre-tooth cats once roamed the continent, but were our ancient ancestors responsible for their disappearance?

Jurassic parkour in SA lava fields

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 31 Jan 2020

After stumbling on mention of tracks in a dissertation from the 1960s, scientists are shedding new light on the dinosaurs that hotfooted it through SA’s prehistoric past

Bionic mushrooms are a thing now

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 9 Nov 2018

Scientists have the technology (and apparently the inclination) to make fungus better, stronger, faster

New light on old civilisations

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 28 Sep 2018

Scientists are remapping the stories of ancient civilisations by shooting them with lasers

Bug evolution thrown into Chaos

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 7 Sep 2018

Super-strains of bacteria need a new nemesis, and scientists reckon they’ve found one

Laziness: Lifeline or death knell?

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 31 Aug 2018

Sluggish snails prevailed, but Homo erectus may have died out because, honestly, why bother?

Set course for the heart of the Sun

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 17 Aug 2018

They promise the earth and never deliver, but sometimes the world’s leaders give us the sun, the moon and the stars

Uh oh, there’s a disorderly Deadpool in the gene pool

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 3 Aug 2018

CRISPR-Cas9’s responsible use has been welcomed as an important stride in medical research and molecular biology

Oh great, even more water on Mars

Article Matthew Du Plessis - 27 Jul 2018

We used to laugh at the idea that Mars had canals — now it turns out there’s a whole fricking lake

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