Money the big issue when it comes to surviving HIV/AIDS # Scibraai Monday Menu
There is a cold reality contained in South Africa’s HIV/AIDS statistics: if you are poor, your chances of dying from the disease are more than...
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What are the standards that bottled water have to live up to?
by AdminBraai
[WATCH] this episode of Joburg TV and learn more about how bottled water is produced. Annually around 500 million litres of bottled water are sold in...
What is in the water that great white sharks swim in? #Scibraai Monday Menu
Skin samples of great white sharks contain worrying levels of environmental and biological contaminants. This is among the findings of a recent study in the...
Putting mealie pap under the spotlight
by AdminBraai
Anina Guelpa talks about the properties of maize in this article from the 2015 New Voices in Science publication. For the next few weeks, Scibraai...
Rocking with Namaqualand’s daisies
by AdminBraai
For the next few weeks, Scibraai will be featuring a few articles that appeared in the 2015 New Voices in Science publication. The articles are...
@Scibraai Monday Menu: of tennis players’ BMT and frogs
This week’s @Scibraai Monday Menu features two research papers – one from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (featuring mental toughness in tennis players) and another from...
#Scibraai Monday Menu: About #Feesmustfall, soccer and spit, and cancers
Today’s @Scibraai Monday Menu should probably be called the Scibraai Tuesday Treat. Better late than never! So here’s this week’s snippets of interesting local South African...
Bees can make farming better
Dr Ruan Veldtman is an ecological entomologist, which means that he has a keen interest in the positive and negative role of insects in the...
Scibraai Monday Menu #3: About singers, fossil teeth and vaccines
This week’s Scibraai Monday Menu contains a trio of research snippets about vaccine development (read: the answer might be in tobacco), ancient fossils (the latest...
Scibraai Monday Menu #2: Overberg’s new crab and hyena hair, among others
In our new Scibraai slot, we take a very brief look at a few new research papers from South Africa....