In Bangladesh, people are eating more fish but getting less nutrition from it
Apr 11, 2017 05:38 am UTC| Health
People in Bangladesh are now eating 30% more fish than they did 20 years ago, but they are getting a smaller amount of important nutrients from it, a new study shows. Fish is widely known as a healthy food, rich in...
Enzymes versus nerve agents: Designing antidotes for chemical weapons
Apr 11, 2017 04:48 am UTC| Health
A chemical weapons attack that killed more than 80 people, including children, triggered the Trump administrations recent missile strikes against the Syrian government. The use of illegal nerve agents apparently by the...
Snout, sniff and sneeze: the language of the nose
Apr 11, 2017 04:42 am UTC| Health
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that language is fossil poetry. It is made up, he said, of images which have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. Some of that poetry is on the nose. An extraordinary number of...
Why ADHD can be a valuable bonus for entrepreneurs
Apr 10, 2017 13:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health Business
Entrepreneurship is about moving forwards. It involves branching out, a search for the new, starting a journey in which the destination is unknown. In a sense then, it is not an entirely rational process, in which actions...
Go Ahead And Keep Judging Others, Study Says It’s A Good Thing
Apr 10, 2017 13:37 pm UTC| Health
Society often discourages people from judging others despite being made of a wholly judgmental populace. As it turns out, looking down on others for being despicable is actually a good thing, at least to some extent....
Food for thought? Diet helps explain unique human brainpower
Apr 08, 2017 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
Its the mystery of all mysteries of science. Why is it that humans are so unusual compared to all other life? The key to solving this riddle lies in explaining the evolution of our large brains and exceptional...
Apr 04, 2017 13:20 pm UTC| Health
With almost half the adult population trying to lose weight - its time to bust some diet myths that just wont go away. Heres eight weve been asked about lately. 1. Celery has negative calories A 15cm celery stalk has...
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