SCIENCE
2 September 2020
80% of babies born with the disease are in sub-Saharan Africa
By Elsabé Brits
31 August 2020
By getting high-risk people into care immediately, even if they are not feeling ill, many deaths can be prevented
By Neal David
24 August 2020
Naming invasive species will help to destroy them, says conservationist
By Sarah Wild
20 August 2020
It is much more sensible to compare how many people have tested positive this week to last week
By Alex Welte
28 July 2020
SA team won a Google Earth grant to protect precious floral kingdom
Text by Sarah Wild. Photos by Jasper Slingsby.
6 July 2020
Regular cleaning with standard household products is sufficient
By Natasha Bolognesi
23 June 2020
A new study confirms that the “luxury effect” is real
19 May 2020
It’s a useful but much misunderstood concept for explaining the course of the epidemic
By Max Price
8 May 2020
This may be little comfort to people facing hunger or crippling job losses because of the lockdown, but air pollution is nevertheless a major global killer
By Tony Carnie
13 April 2020
And it contains elementary errors
By Nathan Geffen
10 April 2020
Home-made masks can help protect us from the virus
By Heather Zar
8 April 2020
We explain confirmed cases, death rates and more
By Marcus Low and Nathan Geffen
6 April 2020
We debunk nonsense being spread about the pandemic
By GroundUp Staff
29 March 2020
Researchers estimate deaths based on Chinese and Italian data. But we can take action to stop the worst outcomes
25 March 2020
There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes in the testing labs than most patients realise
By Fatima Khan
17 March 2020
Both money and logistics are barriers to scaling up the number of tests for the novel coronavirus
By James Stent and Nathan Geffen
