The Science Inside: What’s up with your cellphone battery?
Did you know that South African researchers at the CSIR had a hand in developing the lithium ion batteries that are used in many cellphones?...
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Meet Paul Kennedy
by AdminBraai
Paul is a science communicator at ScienceLink and a volunteer at SciBraai, based in Cape Town (info as at May 2015) My work is all...
Meet Marina Joubert
by AdminBraai
Marina Joubert is a science communication researcher and lecturer at Stellenbosch University (info as at April 2015). What I do: I do research on science...
Fracking in Karoo gets a R108m injection
by Sarah Wild
The R108-million investment in shale gas research, announced in Finance Minister Nhlanhla Nene’s budget speech, was “positive” and showed “government is taking time to investigate”,...
IBM research lab to work with the cool kids
by Sarah Wild
Multinational research company IBM announced on Friday that it will be opening a research laboratory, in collaboration with the University of Witwatersrand, in the Tshimologong...
February Events – some sense about string theory
by AdminBraai
SciBraai is excited to be promoting local science-, technology- and innovation-related events in the Mother City. This month, these events get to grips with one of...
Voëls se ‘oerknal’ in reusestudie bepaal
by Elsabé Brits
Die “oerknal van voël-evolusie” en die beste stamboom nóg van die diere wat oor miljoene jare strek, is pas bekend gemaak. Honderde navorsers van 20...
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,...
SCIENCE VOICES: The sleeping pill that wakes up damaged brains
by AdminBraai
Between our love for contact sports and our shocking road traffic injury figures, South Africans are at the troubling end of head trauma statistics, writes...
Bringing researchers and the public together for science
by Paul Kennedy
Forensics, facial recognition, psychiatry and eye health may not seem inherently connected. But they all have two things in common: they are all relevant to...