From Stellenbosch to Saskatchewan: microbes across the globe
by Marcelle van Niekerk A whiteboard dominates the wall of Professor Gideon Wolfaardt’s office. Permanent markers leave trails of colourful writing, bleeding into hastily...
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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: 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...
Keep calm and be a blue wildebeest
So just how stressed are blue wildebeest when they are kept in a boma? If you’d like to know the answer, ask Dr Liesel Laubscher...
How translocating rhinos promotes genetic health and keeps them safe
by AdminBraai
The translocation of rhinos can help conservation and build their populations, writes Nikki le Roex of Stellenbosch University in The Conversation Africa. Rhino poaching is...
In search of a true Karoo chop test
Recent food scandals have shown that consumers cannot simply assume anymore that what is described on a label is actually what they will be eating....
A bridge builder of note – even into the past
From invasive plants clogging up rivers to ecological restoration, from Karoo and fynbos veld to palaeontology, bulbs and early man – these are some of...