Addicted to social media? Try an e-fasting plan
Apr 03, 2016 23:50 pm UTC| Health
Social media is a double-edged sword, providing both benefits and drawbacks. In order to stay connected, many of us are becoming captivated by these pervasive tools. A social media report by Sensis in 2015 reported that...
How mind-controlling parasites can get inside your head
Apr 02, 2016 03:46 am UTC| Health
Imagine that pesky tabby cat has been pooing in your backyard again. Unbeknown to you, it has transferred some of the parasite spores it was carrying onto your herb garden. Unintentionally, while preparing a tasty salad,...
Why finding a real alternative to sugar is so difficult
Apr 01, 2016 15:57 pm UTC| Health
So much for the decades in which fats and oils were public enemy number one on our dinner plates. There is more and more evidence that sugar or more precisely, carbohydrate is behind our increasing rates of obesity and...
An ancient retrovirus has been found in human DNA – and it might still be active
Apr 01, 2016 15:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
Striking evidence has emerged that an ancient virus previously known only from fossil evidence has persistently infected some humans at very low levels for hundreds of thousands or even millions of years. This ancient...
Changing the face of autism: here come the girls
Apr 01, 2016 09:21 am UTC| Health Science
If you ask someone to name famous people (fictional or non-fictional) who are known for having autism or being on the spectrum, Rain Man is often the top favourite, possibly followed by Sherlock Holmes (especially in his...
Four things parents can do to keep their kids’ kidneys healthy
Apr 01, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Health
There has been an increase in kidney disease in children globally. In the developed world up to 5% of patients with chronic kidney disease are children. But statistics are harder to come by in the developing world. The...
Resisting expanding disease empires: why we shouldn't label healthy people as sick
Apr 01, 2016 00:57 am UTC| Health
You might have heard the frightening news last year suggesting half of all Americans had some form of diabetes. A survey in the journal JAMA was covered extensively, including by NBC, WebMD and the Los Angeles...
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