Most of the universe is made up of hydrogen and helium atoms, which came into being after the Big Bang cooled down a little. Heavier atoms are formed during high-energy collisions in stars.

Choose a main ingredient. Choose a pot. Decide what else would go with it. Check the cupboards. This is how recipes are formed.

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The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday he would send lawmakers home a day early for a five-week summer recess to avoid a political fight over files on disgraced ...

A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday declined to lift restrictions imposed by President Donald Trump's administration on White House access by Associated Press journalists after the news organization ...

Notices for a council meeting to discuss the future of Nelson Mandela Bay city manager Noxolo Nqwazi were issued on Tuesday as the political fallout over last week’s abandoned council meeting ...

The vast breadth of the mandate given to the commission of inquiry headed by Acting Deputy Chief Justice Mbuyiseli Madlanga will keep it busy for years, doing work a functioning criminal justice ...

A new respiratory syncytial virus vaccine to protect infants from severe illness is available in South Africa’s private sector, but not yet in public clinics. The country’s advisory group on ...

Spread across the Earth’s oceans, the Chinese distant-water fishing fleet is the single largest armada in human history. This three-part series is an unprecedented investigation into their secretive ...

Maverick returns six months later to assess traffic signal failures – and the citizen power behind a growing fix-it movement.

Virtually the entire coastal zone of South Africa (95%) has been leased out by the state for oil and gas exploration. How can a goal of 30% Marine Protected Areas align with 95% of the ocean under ...

Not only are protests in Kenya occurring more often, they are more widespread, spanning regions far beyond the usual centres of political activism like Nairobi, Kisumu or Mombasa.