Why are young women without wrinkles using Botox?
Dec 17, 2016 03:00 am UTC| Health
The battle against wrinkles has lasted for centuries. Long before surgical facelifts, people ingested powders and potions, stretched their faces using thread and tape, and rubbed their skin with Crisco, acid and animal...
How to know when holiday drinking is hurting your brain
Dec 17, 2016 01:52 am UTC| Health
For many, the holidays are indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Families and friends come together and enjoy food, good cheer and, often, alcohol. Commercially speaking, alcohol and the holidays seem to be made...
Online 'Dallas Buyers Club' promises medications, fast
Dec 16, 2016 02:29 am UTC| Technology Health
The Social Medwork, a new website that sells patients medicines they cannot easily access in their own country, has been dubbed an online Dallas Buyers Club. In the movie, the character Ron Woodroof resorted to...
How HIV's evasion tactics could help fight the flu
Dec 14, 2016 00:13 am UTC| Health
One vaccine. Lifetime immunity. This is the goal for thousands of researchers tackling one of the worlds most evasive pathogens human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV has foiled both the immune system and vaccines....
Comic explainer: how memory works
Dec 12, 2016 19:36 pm UTC| Health
We recall thousands of events and procedures every day, but what is memory? In this comic explainer, The Florey Institutes Dr Jee Hyun Kim explains how memory works, why we recall some things more easily than others and...
What makes it so hard to quit drugs?
Dec 12, 2016 11:05 am UTC| Health
Most people who use alcohol and other drugs do so infrequently and never become dependent (or addicted as its sometimes called). On average about 10% of people who use alcohol or other drugs are dependent. The rate is...
Why cutting meat from your diet could be a revolutionary act
Dec 12, 2016 04:45 am UTC| Health
Controversy erupted at the University of Cape Town in 2016 when some academics suggested that only meat-free meals should be served on parts of the campus. The debates and opposition were couched in arguments around ethics...
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