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

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 ...

One such animal that adopts this positioning is the meerkat. This cute, bite-sized member of the mongoose family resides in ...

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

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 ...

What it is, is the clearest-yet image of the centre of the Milky Way, which is a good 25,000 light years from the Karoo, in the heartland of South Africa, from where the MeerKAT radio telescope ...

Now, researchers believe they know why the animals — members of the mongoose family found throughout southern Africa — have such bloodthirsty streaks. Dominant female meerkats display a unique ...

Meerkats live in dry areas such as the Namib and Kalahari deserts in Africa, and prefer sandy or even stony ground. They avoid forests, mountains, and true deserts, the zoo noted. A true desert ...

A member of the mongoose family, meerkats — also known as suricates — are active carnivores that live in burrows in Africa. The five were brought to the Philadelphia Zoo as a group of siblings ...