The UWC student who takes a closer look at crime scenes
Mfundo Maneli is a computer scientist on a mission to help South African forensic investigators to better “read” and understand crime scenes. It’s his way...
Tag : South African science
Portraits from the Pandemic: a mathematician’s artistic perspective
by AdminBraai
For those of us still dealing with intense anxiety and burnout after the COVID-19 pandemic, the quaint watercolour-painted characters in Stellenbosch University maths professor Karin-Therese...
Minute life: new diatom discovered on sea snakes
Your chances of spotting a yellow-bellied sea snake (Hydrophis platurus) while boogey boarding or surfing are slim. It is after all the only sea snake...
Shisa Sayensi: Bacwaninga izakhi zofuzo lwenkomo ukuqeda indlala
USolwazi Este van Marle-Koster, ongusoyayensi wezolimo enNyuvesi yasePitoli, uhola ucwaningo oluzo qopha umlando nolwazi ngezinkomo zase Ningizimu Afrika....
CT expert’s latest children’s book on Africa’s dinosaurs
Cape Town palaeontologist Prof Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is as at ease in front of international academic audiences talking about her research into the microscopic structure of...
Featured Sibo’s story helps children understand COVID-19
Over the past decade, Sibo, a lovable science-minded book character, has introduced South African children to difficult topics such as malaria, water, space, nanotechnology and...
The UCT prof who helped save the bluefin tuna
Later this month, Professor Doug Butterworth will be formally honoured by the Emperor of Japan with the Order of the Rising Sun for contributing to...
Legs gets an extra (3D printed) leg
A secretary bird called Legs is the first raptor in South Africa to sport a 3D-printed prosthesis. It was designed by some of the South...
Dark energy – the next frontier?
by AdminBraai
by Thabiso Goba Dark energy has dominated the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting with a few playful murmurs of a future Nobel Prize for the...
Die nierdokter wat 51 lewens gered het
by Elsabé Brits
Tien jaar gelede het dr Elmi Muller die eerste nieroorplantings in Suid-Afrika op MIV-positiewe ontvangers gedoen. Sy het sedertdien al 51 sulke oorplantings gedoen. Ten...