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This Is How You ‘Unboil’ An Egg [Video]
28 Jan 2015 by Kiernan / 1 Comment
Yeah, they’re not quite as cool as Bill Nye but these scientists from the University of California, Irvine have done pretty OK with their latest finding.
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Thursday Morning Spice
13 Nov 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Opposition chorus vows to drive Zuma from office. Cell-C banner case escalates. SA doctor Instagram app launches. Usher hunting down stolen sex tape. Man kills his own hitman. Amazon testing UK drones.
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Eat All The Butter: Why Not All Fat Is Bad Fat
31 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re feeling a little bit frumpy after winter, and your bikini is a scary monster in your closet, why not have a look at this and consider changing your lifestyle a bit?
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Revealed: What Really Killed Joan Rivers
17 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The comedian and actress died at age 81 at Mount Sinai Hospital a week after the operation, and now some more details of her tragic passing have been released.
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Aah, We See Parliament Is Looking To Revive The ‘Dagga Bill’
10 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
What would the legalisation of medical marijuana do to people’s lives? What would it change? If something could help with your fight against cancer, would you try it?
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Google Has A $1.5 Billion Research Centre To ‘Cure Death’
04 Sep 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This Google backed company is going to make us live forever!! Or will it? With the aim to “cure death” we can only bet for the moment of attending our 100th high school reunion.
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Thursday Morning Spice
31 Jul 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Ebola virus spreading rapidly. State files final Oscar arguments. How Russia sanctions can bite back. Argentina defaults. Zuma orders corruption probe. Battery charges cellphone in 15 mins. Barrymore sister dead.
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Introducing – The Youngest Doctor In South Africa
23 Jun 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
So for his 21st birthday this young man was most likely stitching someone up or cleaning out a bedpan, what were you doing to help your fellow South Africans when you turned 21? No, drinking more alcohol so there is less for under-age drinkers does not count.
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Woman Cured Of Cancer Using Measles Virus
16 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Scientists are constantly working on new ways to combat this devastating auto-immune disease. In the case of a certain Stacey Erholtz, she tried something with her doctor out of sheer desperation
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Thanks to the humble mouse, you might never grow old - ever.
New Mice Experiment Might Reveal Key To Eternal Youth
05 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Thank you science! A new experiment using mice has shown us that there might be a way to keep us young….FOREVER. New Studies published in Science & Nature Medicine show us that when scientists took the blood out of young and spritely mice and injected it into the bloodstreams of old and creaky rats, the old rats […]
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They’re Growing Vaginas In Labs Now
11 Apr 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Science is a like a bipolar person with ADD: one moment we’re contemplating the cosmos, and the next thing we’re growing vaginas in a lab. Are you ready? Four women have had lab-grown vaginas implanted by doctors in the US.
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Local Doctor Used Stilnox To Wake Up 20 Coma Patients Around The World
25 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
For years a local doctor from the mining town of Springs, on the East Rand, has been prescribing patients with brain damage a sleeping tablet called Stilnox. In 1999 Dr Wally Nel gave the sleeping tablet to the comatose Louis Viljoen. He awoke from a seven year long coma.
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Medical Journal Says Multivitamins Are A Complete Waste Of Money
18 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
It’s time to chuck your multivitamins down the toilet. If you thought taking your daily dose of Vitamin A, B, C and whatever was making you healthier, you thought wrong. A recent editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine says that using supplements and multivitamins to help chronic conditions is a complete waste of time. […]
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New Hope For Bald People (Who Care That They Are Bald)
22 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Even celebrities like Jacques Kallis, Wayne Rooney and Shane Warne can’t manage to bring the growth back properly, despite spending more than the average bald man on hair-growth technology. But now there may be hope for the baldies, as researchers say they have successfully grown hair follicles in human flesh using implanted donor cells. Siff.
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The Future Of Medicine: Brain Implants Will Restore Your Lost Memory
08 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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.
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Scientists Develop Astonishingly Accurate Cancer Breath Test
06 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
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 […]
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The World’s Smallest, Swallowable Microchip Could Revolutionise Medicine
27 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Yesterday Freescale Semiconductors announced that they had created the world’s smallest ARM-powered chip. The Kinetis Kl02 is the size of two ants side by side – 1,9mm by 2mm. The chip is a full microcontroller unit, meaning this little thing sports a RAM, ROM, aclock and I/O control unit. Basically it’s a tiny computer. The KL02 has […]
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Thanks, Science – New Technology Allows Patients To Grow Their Own Hips
11 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
British scientists are working on a new type of prosthetic material that could allow you grow your own hip, in the event that the one your mother gave you no longer works. This technology could be available within the next 10 years. Patient implants would be made from a revolutionary type of plastic material which […]
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New Drug Found To Treat Symptoms Of Depression In Minutes
14 Dec 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
A recent clinical trial conducted by the National Institute of Health in the US has found that a new experimental drug may be able to treat depression symptoms within minutes, as opposed to most current prescription anti-depressants that can take weeks to have an effect.
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SA Study: Some People Are Capable Of Making HIV-Neutralising Antibodies
22 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of South African scientists has discovered that certain people’s blood is capable of producing antibodies that can kill nine of ten known strains of HIV.
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Internet Addiction To Be Classified As A Mental Disorder
04 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
If you’re spending too much time on the Internet, you may soon be diagnosed with a medical condition. Psychologists are looking at including a new classification in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), the de facto guide to identifying and classifying mental diseases. Could you be suffering from Internet Use Disorder?
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US Scientists Find New Way Dagga Could Stop Cancer
21 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It’s been a subject that’s as old as time – let us smoke our weed, because it has medicinal properties. Scientists at a US medical center in California have provided new credence to this claim, discovering a compound derived from the plant which stops the metastases of many kinds of aggressive cancer.
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From Frankenstein With Love: Harvard Scientists Build Jellyfish From Scratch
23 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is just plain unbelievable. A group of researchers at Harvard, in a study towards building the first artificial human heart, have created their own creature. Similar to a jellyfish, they’ve created a Medusoid – a hybrid “pseudo-organism” made from the cells of a rat’s heart and a special polymer film.
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This 15-Year Old Is Revolutionising The Way We Test For Cancer [VIDEO]
19 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For most 15-year olds, the last thing they want to do after school is head to a lab and work on their biology. Jack Andraka however, is not most 15-year olds and after school he heads over to Johns Hopkins University where he’s working on a test for cancer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what’s ahead now.
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Home Test Kit For HIV Approved, On Sale In Months
04 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
On Tuesday, the FDA approved the first ever over-the-counter, at-home test for HIV. The test will offer customers complete privacy and could be on shelves in the States as soon as October.
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Patrick Holford Kids Supplement Found Guilty Of Misleading Advertising
17 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So it turns out that one of the Patrick Holford supplement range products – called Smart Kids Brain Boost – does not actually enhance mental performance. This was revealed in a ruling by the Advertising Standards Authority. The company will now have to change the name of the product, as well as remove the term “intelligent fats” from the packaging.
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A Valentine’s Miracle: Stem Cells Could Heal Broken Hearts
14 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
As Al Green so eloquently put it all those years ago, “how can you mend a broken heart?” A recent study has found that stem cells may in fact be used to heal scars and other damage after a heart attack.
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We Live In The Future Now: 83-Year-Old Woman Fitted With 3D-Printed Jaw
06 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An 83-year-old woman has successfully had her lower jaw replaced with a 3D-printed model by scientists at Belgium’s University of Hasselt. This is the first such implant in the world, and was a much faster process than traditional artificial implants – we’re taking hours instead of days.
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2011 Nobel Prize Round-Up (Update)
07 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It’s Nobel Prize Week! Which is when regular people get their egos crushed under the weight of the giants of literature, chemistry, physics, economics, and “peace”. Which sucks. But click through, and you can wow your friends with your knowledge of this year’s Nobel winners, and give that ego a little boost.
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$1.99 Skin Cancer App – Thank You iPhone
18 Jul 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
If you think that owning an iPhone is a waste of money, think again. An American company called Health Discovery Corporation has invented an app, called MelApp, that uses mathematical algorithms and image based pattern recognition technology, to detect early stage melanoma. What’s that? Can’t get an American iTunes account? Oh yes you can.
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