Eight ways to fix our water woes
The South African water crisis is a complex series of interlocking problems that preclude a silver-bullet solution. Each water system is unique, with different geographies,...
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What price a peek at the galaxy?
by Sarah Wild
Square Kilometre Array (SKA) scientists and engineers are at this moment trying to predict what the world will look like in 2020. More than 350...
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,...
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...
West Coast’s Heaviside’s dolphins are all family
The sight of an albino Heaviside’s dolphin off Hondeklipbaai during one of her sampling trips along the West Coast is one that she will always...
Banking on SA’s livestock genes
A small article in the Farmers’ Weekly brought the 22-year old Ernst Lebogang Jonkers to the Innovation Hub in Pretoria for a day-long discussion on...