Listening in to brain communications, without surgery
Mar 01, 2019 13:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
Plenty of legitimate science plus a whole lot of science fiction discusses ways to hack the brain. What that really means, most of the time even in the fictional examples involves surgery, opening the skull to implant...
Cancer Cure 2019: How Great White Shark Can Lead to Cancer Cure
Feb 27, 2019 09:14 am UTC| Science
Cancer is one of the most harrowing diseases a person can be diagnosed with simply because there is no complete cure found for it yet. However, a recently published research suggests that the usually feared great white...
HIV/AIDS Medication Shows Potential to Treat Age-Related Illnesses Like Alzheimer’s
Feb 27, 2019 09:14 am UTC| Science
While scientists and researchers are still working on finding and developing the complete cure for human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), they discovered another potential drug...
Life quickly finds a way: the surprisingly swift end to evolution's big bang
Feb 19, 2019 16:56 pm UTC| Insights & Views Science
The Cambrian explosion more than 500 million years ago is often considered biologys big bang. Virtually all the major kinds of animals evolved in lifes greatest ever burst of evolution, rapidly populating a weird and...
Feb 19, 2019 09:07 am UTC| Science
Part of the continuing efforts to find the cure for cancer, a team of researchers has developed an antibody-drug that attacks fatal tumors from the inside. Because of how the drug works, it is being likened to a Trojan...
Is an HIV/AIDS Cure Within Humanity’s Reach?
Feb 19, 2019 09:07 am UTC| Science
The first cases of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) were identified in the 1980s. Unfortunately, the world has yet to find a cure that will ultimately remove the...
Cancer Cure 2019: Experts Doubt Israeli Company’s Promise of Delivering ‘Complete Cure’ in 1 Year
Feb 11, 2019 09:21 am UTC| Science
Scientists from Israel recently announced they are one year away from delivering a complete cure to cancer. But some experts are explaining why the promised time frame is questionable. In late January, scientists and...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight