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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.
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Inside Facebook’s big bet on Africa

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New undersea cables will massively increase bandwidth to the continent

Easter eggs from the most South African dinosaur

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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

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

Grass roots of Ice-Age extinctions

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

Jurassic parkour in SA lava fields

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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

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

New light on old civilisations

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

Bug evolution thrown into Chaos

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

Laziness: Lifeline or death knell?

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

Set course for the heart of the Sun

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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

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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

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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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