New Drug Destroys Breast Cancer In 11 Days, Study Indicates
Mar 21, 2017 08:33 am UTC| Science
Breast cancer is one of the most frightening diseases that afflict women and even some men in all walks of life. While some treatment plans have been proven to work in the past such as chemotherapy, many of them are too...
Can science produce better passport control officers?
Mar 20, 2017 12:28 pm UTC| Science Technology
Passport officers often have to scrutinise hundreds of people each day. They have just a few seconds to stare through their glass screens at the impatient and perhaps slightly dishevelled traveller facing them and decide...
Astronomers to peer into a black hole for the first time with new Event Horizon Telescope
Mar 18, 2017 06:54 am UTC| Insights & Views Science
Ever since first mentioned by Jon Michell in a letter to the Royal Society in 1783, black holes have captured the imagination of scientists, writers, filmmakers and other artists. Perhaps part of the allure is that these...
Complete Synthetic Genome Creation Within Reach
Mar 13, 2017 13:02 pm UTC| Science
Genetic manipulation is an incredibly touchy subject that many scientists would love to dive into headlong, but which the rest of the world has been preventing them from doing. As a result, researchers have had to make...
The decoupling delusion: rethinking growth and sustainability
Mar 13, 2017 05:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Science
Our economy and society ultimately depend on natural resources: land, water, material (such as metals) and energy. But some scientists have recognised that there are hard limits to the amount of these resources we can use....
Scientists Create DNA Computer With Potentially Infinite Memory And Processing Capacity
Mar 08, 2017 06:02 am UTC| Science
One of the biggest challenges confronting humanity right now is the impending wall that technology will eventually hit when it comes to the memory and processing capacity of computers. One of the avenues that scientists...
Scientific theories aren't mere conjecture – to survive they must work
Mar 08, 2017 04:59 am UTC| Science
The evidence is incontrovertible. Global warming is occurring. Climate change is real, is serious and has been influenced by anthropogenic activity. The scientific evidence is clear: Global climate change caused by human...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
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