2017 SCIENCE BUDGET GOES UP, BUT THE MONEY BUYS LESS
Analysis On paper, South Africa’s science and technology budget continues to edge up. On Wednesday, finance minister Pravin Gordhan delivered his national budget to Parliament,...
Author : Sarah Wild
Sarah Wild is an award-winning science journalist. She studied physics, electronics and English literature at Rhodes University in an effort to make herself unemployable. It didn't work and she is now the Science Editor at the Mail&Guardian. Sarah writes about particle physics, cosmology and everything in between. In 2012, she published her first full-length non-fiction book Searching African Skies: The Square Kilometre Array and South Africa’s Quest to Hear the Songs of the Stars. In 2013, she was awarded overall winner of the Pan-African Siemens Profile Awards for excellence in science journalism.
20 Things To Know About SA’s Research Infrastructure Roadmap
by Sarah Wild
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Malnutrition rises despite social grants
by Sarah Wild
South Africa’s children are bearing the brunt of increasing food prices – and the effects may be permanent. More than one in five children in...
From the Cradle to the grave? #NalediFossils
by Sarah Wild
First published on wildonscience.com | #NalediFossils They moved the bodies in one at a time, from the old with their worn teeth to newborn babies. If...
Door ‘slammed on open access’ to academic work
by Sarah Wild
Anger has been growing over embargoes on published works that “limit access to knowledge and make academics’ work outdated”. South African universities and government agencies...
Who’s who in Johannesburg’s zoo
by Sarah Wild
Maintaining a zoo is not only a balancing act, it contributes importantly to the world we live in. There’s a science factor to it too,...
Silent giants unlock story of climate change
by Sarah Wild
Researchers are using baobab trees to learn about climate conditions that prevailed thousands of years ago. Engorged ancient baobab trunks could tell the story of...
Race ‘science’ resurfaces but not all is black and white
by Sarah Wild
Sarah Wild of the Mail and Guardian interviewed Gavin Evans, a former South African journalist. He tackles the notion that intelligence is skin deep in his new book,Black...
Fracking out in the open at last
by Sarah Wild
A team of researchers has R12.5-million and two years to consider the effect of fracking for shale gas on the Karoo. The strategic environmental assessment...
SA crunches into the collider data grid
by Sarah Wild
South Africa has joined the computing grid for the largest particle accelerator in the world, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The collider, which straddles the...