Water-dwelling organisms show new ways to harvest light for solar tech
What can single-celled diatoms living in water teach us about harvesting light? Alot, says Prof Tjaart Kruger of the University of Pretoria, in this article...
Category : Space & Astronomy
How to make a telescope’s control room a happy place
by AdminBraai
When building a optical telescope, there’s more to consider than just lenses and high-end processors. The human element – the people that will actually work...
Gas sensing machine a breath of fresh air for Unizulu physicists
PHYSICISTS at the University of Zululand are beside themselves with joy after obtaining an important gas sensing machine, one of only two in the country....
Big discoveries and sharper pictures for growing MeerKAT telescope
THE MEERKAT telescope turned its eyes to deep space for the first time last year, and this year has produced even more captivating images with...
A few shortcuts to the latest Homo naledi news
Still feel as if you’re not quite yet on top of the biggest science news coming out of South Africa this week? About the latest...
[LISTEN] The Science Inside: Radio waves, lost continents and skirt lengths
by AdminBraai
Want to know more about a cellphone that could charge itself, how to build a radio from scratch or how the SKA radio telescope is to...
2017 SCIENCE BUDGET GOES UP, BUT THE MONEY BUYS LESS
by Sarah Wild
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,...
Toxic fungi: what’s in your food?
by AdminBraai
This article by Theodora Ekwomadu of North-West University about food fungi is not for the squeamish. It first appeared in Science Today. Here goes! In 1960...
How long until we lose the moon?
by AdminBraai
Interested in local research about the moon? Then read this article by Sphumelele Ndlovu of the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) and the University of...
20 Things To Know About SA’s Research Infrastructure Roadmap
by Sarah Wild
You can find more original science content by Sarah Wild on Wild On Science. [View the story “20 Things To Know About SA’s Research Infrastructure...