‘Food deserts’ found even in areas with supermarkets nearby – new study
Eating plenty of fruit and vegetables is key to staying healthy and avoiding diseases such…
I followed the story in the city’s archives
The water infrastructure politics of eThekwini, the municipality that includes the city of Durban, have…
Putting people first: Europe’s 6G push for connectivity that serves society
What if tomorrow’s super-fast, super-connected digital world could be shaped by public values – right…
Brewery waste can be repurposed to make nanoparticles that can fight bacteria
Modern beer production is a US$117 billion business in the United States, with brewers producing…
Deep anxieties about the meaning of life and existence itself
Opening my social media feed, I’m often confronted with a jarring contrast: intense, diametrically opposed…
Hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of men and women
Differences between men and women in intelligence and behaviour have been proposed and disputed for…
Even in a simple game, our brains keep score – and those scores shape every choice we make
There’s an optimal strategy for winning multiple rounds of rock, paper, scissors: be as random…
How AI is challenging the credibility of some online courses
Distance learning far precedes the digital age. Before online courses, people relied on print materials…
Do you speak cat? Take this quiz to find out
While often miscast as mysterious or hard to understand, cats are actually excellent communicators. In…
SETI’s ‘Noah’s Ark’ – a space historian explores how the advent of radio astronomy led to the USSR’s search for extraterrestrial life
As humans began to explore outer space in the latter half of the 20th century,…