It is possibly the most frustrating thing ever, when you can’t remeber why you walked into the room or what that person’s name is. It is on the tip of your tongue, and the more you try and taste it out, it just isn’t happening.
Who knew humans had salamander like qualities. Australian researchers have managed to locate the immune system cell in salamanders, allowing them to regenerate limbs or damaged organs even their brains. These researchers think the same is possible for humans.
Based on the ancient adage of “you are what you eat”, this app called IGNITE tracks the day-to-day your life, from the meals you eat to the amount of exercise you do, and computes that info into an estimation of how long – or short – you’re likely to live.
American-neuroscientists from the University of Southern California, and North Carolina’s Wake Forest University believe that the restoration of lost long term memory could be achieved through brain implants within the next few years.
We want to know what really happens on the inside of mental asylums, without ever needing to actually be in one. New York photographer, Jeremy Harris stepped inside a number of abandoned asylums prior to their demolishing, and what he came out with is one of the creepiest collections of shots we’ve seen in a long time.
12 May 2013 will see another Mothers Day roll around. Most of usbuy chocolates, flowers, and spend the day spoiling our moms. But some mothers won’t get to enjoy that luxury, because this year they’ll be sitting beside their child’s hospital bed, praying for a miracle. Click through for details on how to give to a charity that will change that
Illustrator Nickolay Lamm undertook an investigation into what Barbie would really look like, in the real world. Lamm compared Barbie’s Mattel image to a proportionate 19 year old girl. Have a look at the disparity between the million dollar industry and the real world.
Fruit juice is the healthy option, right? Of course it is. Or is it? This infographic goes so far as to call fruit juice the “evil twin” of fizzy soft drinks. Check out how fruit juice could be wreaking havoc on your health.
Birds do it, bees do it. Even educated fleas do it. But only humans do it with apps. These ten apps will aid you in your pregnancy, and make life for you, your partner, and your baby considerably easier.
Imagine the cure for addiction looked like a video game. With funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Defense, assistant professor at Duke University in the USA, Zach Rosenthal might have found a way to help the helpless.
Michael Montgomery, a glorified pot reporter, got a rude awakening when he ate brownies he didn’t know contained a high dose of medical marijuana. This animated video uses Montgomery’s hairy experience as subtext to explore the growth of marijuana into a mainstream recreational and medicinal substance in California.
Load up YouTube. Search, “Cinnamon challenge”. You’ll laugh, either at the stupidity of the subjects in the video, or their spasmodic gagging, or both. If you’re young, you might be tempted to take the challenge yourself. Don’t. Apart from being intensely uncomfortable, you’ll probably permanently damage your lungs.
Babies ultrasounds will never be the same with this amazing technology. Have a look at your baby in colour, smile and all.
Comedians Siv Ngesi and Brendan Murray battle it out in the ring for charity.
Sam Parnia is the head of the intensive care unit at Stony Brook University Hospital, New York. Sam can resurrect you from the dead. In fact, he’s done it a few times.
A Glostrup court said on Wednesday that a Danish man had been acquitted of molesting two 17 year old girls due to the man suffering from a rare sleep disorder known as “sexsomnia.”
A clinical trial designed to determine if a hallucinogen from magic mushrooms can be used to treat poeple with depression has been stalled due to European and specifically British rules for the use of illegal drugs in research.
Tik addiction is a global, causing untold damage to users’ bodies, families, and the economies of entire countries. And they might have found a cure
A South African neuroscientist plans to build the world’s first digital brain in the hopes of trying to discover new information on mental disorders. Professor Henry Markram said: What we are developing is a new foundation, a new instrument – a telescope – that will allow one to look deep into the brain, offering a […]
Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) is expected to seek US approval next year for a new anti wrinkle drug that would serve as the stand-alone competitor to Botox. The company said the product could be made available in 2015 in the United States. The anti wrinkle drug market enjoys annual revenue of almost $900 million (R8,3 […]
Cape Town club, Tiger Tiger is giving away a R30 000 breast augmentation surgery for “National Cleavage Day”. The club, which has branches across the country, posted this to their Facebook page on Tuesday afternoon. National Cleavage Day – one of the biggest events of the year – 2013 NCD going to be MASSIVE!!! National […]
If you have, like me, sufffered from migraines at work, then you need to read this. After two weeks of suffering I went to the doctor, obviously fearing a tumour. It took all of 10 seconds for him to ask how I sit at work, and diagnose that my poor posture was causing neck stress, […]
Bodies dating back to the era of the Black Death have been unearthed during excavations for London’s Crossrail project. A black plague burial ground was long rumoured to be in the area, but the exact location was unknown. Thus far 13 bodies have been found in a 5,5 metre wide shaft at the edge of […]
In the early 1990’s, three psychologists called on the Universität der Künste in West Berlin, Germany to study violinists. The psychologists asked a music teacher which of the violinists were most likely to have professional careers. The scientists separated that group out as the elite players. For comparison they also selected a group of students from […]
Chinese and Israeli scientists have developed a test that can, with 90% accuracy detect and distinguish cancers from other stomach complaints. The test was carried out on 130 patients. Of the 130 patients, 37 had stomach cancer, 32 had stomach ulcers and 61 had other stomach complaints. In Britain alone, some 7 000 people develop […]
A new diet which is all the craze in the UK involves not eating at all. “The Fast Diet” was published in January, and has been at the top of the best seller book list on Amazon’s British site for much of the time since then. According to the founder of Short Books publishing house, Rebecca […]
The French are applauding the recent outbreak of horse meat in beef-labelled products. With horse meat consumption showing a steady decline over the last three decades, France has translated the scandal into a trend. There are currently 750 butchers in the country, with 17% of the population claiming to have eaten horse meat. 11 000 […]
If you don’t know about the Mediterranean diet this is it in short. It’s a modern and nutritional diet based on the use of traditional foods from southern Italy, Greece and Spain. According to proponents of the diet, adding high content of olive oils, vegetables, fruits and even wine to your daily consumption helps to […]
Saturday 2 March marks the 10th annual Shavathon. The Shavathon was created to allow the public to show support and solidarity with cancer survivors, or anyone treated for dread disease. The Shavathon inspires people to shave, spray or even gel their hair after making a small donation to support the Cancer Association of South Africa […]
Stellenbosch University’s meat scientists have been busy little bodies, conducting a thorough study of commercially-available meat products in the wake of an international scandal around the presence of delicious horse meat in European meat products not labelled “horse meat”.