Apothecary : Pharmacist is a more common synonym for apothecary

28/11/2025

Bayer

23/11/2025

Red Planet

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover recently came across an odd rock, dubbed "Phippsaksla," that is unlike anything else the robot has found on the Red Planet. It turns out that it probably isn't from our neighboring world and likely crashed on Mars instead.

17/11/2025

Astronomers

Astronomers at South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope have detected the first radio waves coming from the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. But while this sounds suspiciously like alien activity, it is actually further proof of its completely natural origins.

16/11/2025

15/11/2025

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03/11/2025

02/11/2025

The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway is a cable car transportation system offering visitors a five-minute ride to the top of Table Mountain in Cape Town, South Africa.

30/10/2025

Uveitis

Uveitis is a condition involving inflammation in the uvea (the middle portion of the eye). Uveitis is associated with up to 10% of visual impairment in the US and Europe.

📝 This JAMA Patient Page describes types of uveitis, ages and conditions associated with uveitis, and diagnosis and treatment.

https://ja.ma/48VaQla

28/10/2025

Pretoria is well-known for its jacaranda trees, which has earned the city the nickname “Jacaranda City”.

27/10/2025

The Spectroscope

On this day in 1859, German scientists Gustav Kirchhoff and Robert Bunsen perfected their incredible new device: the spectroscope.

This instrument could split light into its fundamental spectrum of colors, like an ultra-precise prism. Their groundbreaking discovery was that every chemical element, when heated, emits its own unique "fingerprint" of light—a specific and unvarying pattern of colored lines.

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25/10/2025