For one thing, weight gain. Since founding the Kalahari Meerkat Project in 1993, University of Cambridge professor Tim Clutton-Brock has studied some 100 meerkat groups. By means of age ...

They were considered rare. However, a new generation of radio telescopes, including South Africa’s MeerKAT, have turned this idea on its head: in the past five years about 11,000 giants have been ...

Using the MeerKAT telescope in South Africa, an international team of astronomers has detected 26 new Galactic radio transients. Most of them turned out to be rotating radio transients (RRATs).