JOHANNESBURG – In a bold leap against one of humanity's oldest foes, postdoctoral researcher Dr. Lindokuhle Ngema at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is revolutionizing tuberculosis (TB) treatment with an innovative inhalable nanomedicine. Developed at the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Pl...

IVO VEGTER is at it again, with a spate of postings published by Daily Maverick, each one more ludicrous than the next. If its not GM food, then its nuclear power that he commends. The latest effort at contrarianism is what appears to be a detailed article on 5G, labeling those who rightly questi...

ONE month ago, the controversial FPB amendment bill was passed by South Africa's Parliament. It came as a major blow to online content providers battling prior restraint and other apartheid-era laws from a previous period of newsroom censorship, and will ostensibly turn ISPs into cops, tasked wit...

The End of the Anthropocene, a retort to Stewart Brand. THAT popular science has a difficult relationship with mainstream research is evidenced by the introduction of a term universalised by atmospheric chemist and Nobel laureate Paul Crutzen nearly two decades ago, at the turn of the new millenn...

TWO rationalist pieces, thoughtfully debunking the legs of Helen Zille’s argument in favour of ‘colonialism not being all that bad’, need to be seen alongside an incredible piece of sensationalist and irrationalist nonsense, authored by self-proclaimed saviour of the ‘black race’ one Andile Mngxi...