The next best thing to a time machine
A “man” stands naked in the centre of the studio. In the dim light cast from a lamp on a nearby table, you can see...
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.
Drink a toast to the wine boffins
by Sarah Wild
Every bottle of wine has a story to tell: of the ground it grew on, the varietal of grape that went into it, the wood...
SA, UK spearhead R500-million fund for joint scientific research
by Sarah Wild
Scientific partnerships are about “finding things that matter to both our societies”, Professor Robin Grimes, chief scientific adviser in the United Kingdom’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office,...
Downward spiral of Africa’s dying vultures
by Sarah Wild
Poisoning is the chief menace but power lines, wind turbines and loss of habitat are also a threat to to Africa’s endangered vulture populations, writes...
Obituary: Mike Gaylard: Radio astronomy has lost a star
by Sarah Wild
Mike Gaylard’s passion and brilliance in radio astronomy and dedication to the discipline in South Africa will be sorely missed, writes Sarah Wild in the...
Winged changyuraptor adds feather to SA scientist’s cap
by Sarah Wild
An international team of experts, including Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan from the University of Cape Town, has discovered a small, feathered dinosaur with four wings and...
New machine to boost paleoscience, climate change & drug discovery research
by Sarah Wild
With AMS scientists can determine how old a fossil is much more accurately and quickly, without having to cut it up and destroying it. In...
Robot to test health of ocean ‘lungs’
by Sarah Wild
In a pioneering move, a wave glider has been sent out to sea from Cape Town to measure pollution around Antarctica. A team from the Council...
Magnet barriers could save sharks
by Sarah Wild
Every beat of your heart could attract a shark. It starts with an electrical impulse, which sets off a cascade of activity in the relatively...
Investigations into Namibia’s “fairy circles” in the desert
by Sarah Wild
Plants refuse to grow in Namibia’s fairy circles, and scientists are on a mission to find out why. No theory has been proven yet. Armed...