How to outsmart your COVID-19 fears and boost your mood in 2021
Dec 30, 2020 00:18 am UTC| Health
After a year of toxic stress ignited by so much fear and uncertainty, now is a good time to reset, pay attention to your mental health and develop some healthy ways to manage the pressures going forward. Brain science...
Dec 29, 2020 14:12 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the global tourism industry to a screeching halt in 2020. With vaccines starting to be rolled out, there is hope international travel can resume soon, but exactly when and how is the...
Bzzz, slap! How to treat insect bites (home remedies included)
Dec 29, 2020 13:53 pm UTC| Health
Its the holidays and were spending more time outdoors. This means were exposed to the more annoying and painful aspects of summer insect bites and stings. There are plenty of products at the local pharmacy to treat...
FDA authorized first over-the-counter COVID-19 test – useful but not a game changer
Dec 19, 2020 10:04 am UTC| Health
Soon, people in the U.S. will be able to pick up a rapid antigen test for COVID-19 from their local drugstore without a prescription, test themselves and process the results at home. The Ellume COVID-19 Home Test that...
Severe COVID may be caused by 'autoantibodies' – here is what that means
Dec 19, 2020 10:00 am UTC| Health
Whether or not a person with COVID-19 develops severe disease depends a lot on how their immune system reacts to the coronavirus. But scientists still dont know why some people develop severe disease while others suffer...
Visual illusion that may help explain consciousness – new study
Dec 19, 2020 09:59 am UTC| Health
How much are you conscious of right now? Are you conscious of just the words in the centre of your visual field or all the words surrounding it? We tend to assume that our visual consciousness gives us a rich and detailed...
5 strategies to reduce addiction-like behaviours over the holidays
Dec 17, 2020 11:38 am UTC| Health
With the pressures of the holiday season, rising COVID-19 rates and the resulting social isolation from friends and family, people can easily fall into addictive or excessive behaviours. These are behaviours that are...
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
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects