by Kit Vaughan and Gary Kantor It was just over a year ago that the Springboks – South Africa’s national […]
by Kit Vaughan and Gary Kantor It was just over a year ago that the Springboks – South Africa’s national […]
The second week in October is when the world’s leading scientists eagerly await a telephone call from Stockholm with life-changing […]
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The Cambridge Dictionary defines “serendipity” as “finding interesting or valuable things by chance.” The origin of the word dates back […]
Radiation therapy or radiotherapy is a treatment that employs ionising radiation to kill malignant cancer cells and is usually delivered by a […]
One of the reasons why some women are reluctant to subject themselves to an annual mammogram is a concern that […]
The origins of peer review can be traced back over 350 years to the launch of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal […]
Automated breast ultrasound or ABUS – where the ultrasound transducer is moved across the breast under automated control rather than […]
In 1839, Gustav Rose discovered a novel mineral in the Ural Mountains of Russia which he named “perovskite” in honour of the […]
Twenty years ago, when the AIDS pandemic was ravaging South Africa, the country’s president, Thabo Mbeki, criticised the scientific consensus that the […]