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Since the beginning, cinema has been the medium responsible for bringing fictional future situations to our retina. However, these have in many cases been successfully realised by ...
Thanks to quick healthcare escalation by a multi-disciplinary team at UCT’s Groote Schuur Hospital, Sylvia Nodela gave birth ...
When my guest opinion delving into my wife’s accelerating decline through the insidious progressive stages of Alzheimer’s ...
The age-old question of the chicken or the egg is explored through evolutionary biology. Eggs, as membrane-bound containers ...
Chinese scientists solve century-old mystery how a single plant somatic cell develops into complete plant A packet of cherry ...
Which creatures truly count as cognitive? And which as conscious? From simple organisms to humans, scientists debate the ...
Not all barnacles just sit on rocks and ships. Some invade crabs, growing like a parasitic root system that hijacks their ...
The evolutionary blueprint for hands was borrowed in part from a much older genetic plan for our nether regions, a new study ...
Using uranium-lead dating, researchers calculated the age of the eggs, rather than the sediments around them, at the ...
A protein historian and evolutionary biochemist found that a protein sequence present across all known life didn’t form as ...
When an animal parent has a child, both will belong to the same species. Humans beget humans, combfish beget combfish, and ...
Meet the Facetotectans, a group of tiny crustaceans that have been raising big questions among biologists. These are the ...