What occurs in the brain when we are deep in slumber? What are the different stages of sleep and what role do they play in learning and memory formation? What about in anxiety and pain? Do neurons and neurotransmitters also play a role? These are the questions we will tackle in this Special Feature, using…
President Cyril Ramaphosa with deputy president David Mabuza. Both minister Gwede Mantashe and minister Thulas Nxesi have been hospitalised due to Covid-19.In terms of the Constitution, the president may temporarily assign their functions to any Cabinet member.The acting minister has the same powers as the minister and can, therefore, make decisions on their behalf in…
Floating exhibit, the SAS Durban, a minesweeper belonging to the Durban (Port Natal) Maritime Museum. A minesweeper vessel belonging to the Durban Maritime Museum has partially sunk.The vessel, the SAS Durban, is a floating exhibit and had no people on board.The harbour master said the eThekwini Municipality had engaged the services of a diving company…
7 Surprising Side Effects of Not Having Sex for a While There are plenty of reasons why your sex life may be null and void recently. In the age of social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, singles quarantined alone haven’t had access to those steamy hookups they once enjoyed on a regular basis. Even those…
The City of Cape Town said it can no longer force homeless people to live in shelters now that the lockdown has eased from Level 5 to 4, denying it is dumping people as it shuts down its Strandfontein camp.This after the Muizenberg Improvement District (MID) said in a press release a group of homeless people…
Published: August 25, 2026, 9:44 pm Indus Foods LLC, doing business as Gangothri Foods, an Austin, TX, firm, is recalling 1,626 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pickled goat and chicken products that were produced without the benefit of inspection, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The RTE pickled goat and chicken products were produced between
California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs. If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, hospitals, medical groups
Everything Sprouts LLC of Minneapolis, MN, is recalling three varieties of alfalfa sprouts products because they have been linked to a 15-state outbreak of Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and/or Salmonella. The recalled products were distributed by Everything Sprouts from May 27 to Aug. 21 to wholesale distributors and to grocery stores located in
