Survey adds to experts’ concern about addiction risk and highlights support for plan to ban sales to under-18s

One in eight teenagers aged 14 to 17 have used nicotine pouches, a survey has found, adding to health experts’ concern about their growing popularity.

Users hold the small sachets, which look like mini-teabags and are often flavoured, in their mouths to enjoy the release of the...

Cutting-edge therapies exist, but the market cannot deliver them cheaply. Britain must build NHS capacity so that cures become collective goods, not expensive products

Just a small fraction of our 20,000 genes can cause disease when disrupted – yet that sliver accounts for thousands of rare disorders. The difficulty is: what can a doctor do to treat them? In a common condition such as type 2...

Temu shoppers may experience shipping delays on orders over the festive season.

The commercialisation of the cosmos is already underway, and our current laws aren’t fit for purpose

If there is one thing we can rely on in this world, it is human hubris, and space and astronomy are no exception.

The ancients believed that everything revolved around Earth. In the 16th century, Copernicus and his peers overturned that view with the heliocentric model. Since then, telescopes...

The Mac Mini is a fantastic little computer, but you’ll need one of these great monitors to complete the setup.

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

The combination of a foremost civil activist known for leading Gauteng’s resistance against e-tolls and a leading energy expert that has shed a bright light on many of Eskom’s issues makes for a formidable force.

These portable heaters will heat a room quickly, quietly, and safely.

Lossless audio is the first step toward audio nirvana. But what is it, does it really make a difference, and how can you get it? Here’s what to know.

With less than two weeks to go before their current content deal lapses, MultiChoice and Warner Bros. Discovery have not yet signed a new agreement on the distribution of a dozen of the US media giant’s channels on DStv.

South Africans can get a big-screen monitor to replace their TV without needing a valid TV licence, and some models go up to 86 inches in size.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers. 

In 2025, South Africa’s largest mobile acquired 30% of the country’s biggest fibre operator, signed a partnership with Starlink, and operationalised a first-of-its-kind energy deal in the country.

Michaela Benthaus from Germany soared 65 miles above the Earth’s surface in 10-minute Blue Origin flight

A paraplegic engineer from Germany blasted off on a dream-come-true rocket ride with five other passengers on Saturday, leaving her wheelchair behind to float in space while beholding Earth from on high.

Severely injured in a mountain bike accident seven years ago, Michaela Benthaus became...

Chinese car manufacturers launched a dozen distinct plug-in hybrid models under R1 million in South Africa in 2025.

UN body to study possibility of integrating centuries-old practices into mainstream healthcare

From herbalists in Africa gathering plants to use as poultices to acupuncturists in China using needles to cure migraines, or Indian yogis practising meditation, traditional remedies have increasingly being shown to work, and deserve more attention and research, according to a World Health...

The bank offers customers a significant discount on an annual administrative task through its app.

Frikkie Jonker served as a Captain in the South African National Defence Force and is now taking the fight to streaming pirates in South Africa for MultiChoice.