Monday Menu: WCape students and their waterpipes
Is waterpipe smoking a “passing fad” among young people, and especially students, or is it the start of a different strain of the tobacco epidemic?...
Tag : South African science
City living = stress for African lesser bushbabies
by AdminBraai
Mostly a loner, the African lesser bushbaby feeds on insects, supplementing its diet with sugar-rich gum of the acacia tree, as well as fruits. When...
Night-time shots shed light on what works after 2010 FIFA World Cup in SA
German economics researchers used satellite photographs taken at night to calculate the economic impact of the large-scale building of infrastructure ahead of the 2010...
Why it’s still worth getting the flu vaccine this year
by AdminBraai
Is it worth getting a flu shot this winter? Dr Sibongile Walaza, a medical epidemiologist at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and lecturer...
Oh rats! What can we learn about our health from cooldrink studies?
A group of Stellenbosch University physiologists and a researcher from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology tested what happens when rats drank a sugar-sweetened beverage...