The sharpest images of the universe are created when radio telescopes around the world work together. For the first time, the ...

Meerkats are extremely social with one another ... time in the wild with our closest related species, and for a magical Africa, this place was worth the long haul to get here.

MeerKAT is Afrikaans, meaning "more KAT", but is also the name of an endearing little mongoose-like mammal that is indigenous to the Northern Cape and other Southern African regions. The 63 others ...

Meerkats are small, big-eyed, highly social mongooses who live in South Africa in packs ranging from two to more than 30 individuals in which complex social networks and social hierarchies ...

The discovery of 49 new galaxies in a few hours, announced earlier this year, was the latest testament to the value of South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope. Six years after its inauguration ...

It’s fostered scientific collaboration. It is also nurturing local talent. MeerKAT, which is among South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure projects of the 30 year period since ...

In South Africa’s biggest national park, a camouflaged system of radars, cameras and sensors stands guard. The solar-powered technology is helping to protect Kruger National Park’s rhinos from ...

This is a new chapter for high-resolution radio astronomy, enabling scientists to study the universe in greater detail than ...

Together with Pontsho Maruping, Managing Director of the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO), Michael Kramer addressed the development of the MeerKAT extension (MeerKAT+) antenna and the ...

For example, South African colleagues have developed hardware to combine all the telescopes' data. It is now used more or less in this form in many other telescopes around the world, for example in ...