Science
How much worse are coloured plastics for the environment?
Studies are finding more reason to boycott coloured plastic products
Science | 6 September 2024
How we know a new medicine is so effective at preventing HIV transmission
There was not a single HIV transmission in a clinical trial in which women volunteers used the twice-yearly injectable drug lenacapavir
Science | 1 August 2024
Scientists told us our winters would get drier. So what happened last week?
Climate change means extreme events are likely to happen more often
Science | 16 July 2024
Latest science confirms plummeting penguin population
New model forms the basis for an urgent recommendation to change African Penguin’s conservation status from endangered to critically endangered
By John Yeld
Science | 15 July 2024
Get rid of leaf blowers: they pollute and their purpose is dubious
Many use two-stroke engines which are an environmental hazard
Science | 14 December 2023
African dinosaurs and the sixth mass extinction
Palaeobiologist Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan speaks at GroundUp’s Science for the People seminar
By Liezl Human
Science | 4 December 2023
South Africans are living longer, mostly thanks to HIV treatment
Antiretroviral medicines have been a success, but more work is needed to reach United Nations targets
By Daniel Steyn and Nathan Geffen
Science | 1 December 2023
Farmers put on alert as El Niño takes effect
The South African Weather Service warns of possibly hot and dry summer ahead
By Jess Vujovic
Science | 25 October 2023
Microplastics are a danger to our health. Here’s how to reduce our exposure to them
Some well-intentioned initiatives make the situation worse
Science | 24 October 2023