Featured VIDEO: X-rays reveal 200 million-year-old dino secrets
Researchers at Wits University have revealed the results of their multi-year research into 200 million-year-old dinosaur eggs....
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Featured How being colourblind turned Prof Loyiso Nongxa into a mathematician
Prof Loyiso Nongxa is a trailblazer and an inspiration to many. In 1978, the mathematician became the first black South African to receive a prestigious...
Homo Naledi goes virtual
by AdminBraai
Thanks to funding received from the Royal Society of South Africa, Scibraai will be publishing a few new science stories in the coming months by...
Age-old secret that Hollywood celebrities try to keep from you has been uncovered … by palaeontologists
by AdminBraai
Hollywood celebrities spend large amounts of dollars on it. The hunky stud at the local pub thinks he knows it. But the age-old secret has...
[LISTEN] The Science Inside’s Leap Year episode
by AdminBraai
Take the leap with us on #TheScienceInside and have a listen to the latest episode. We hear from astronomer Duncan Steel how the history of our...
Yet another new SA dinosaur discovered at Heelbo
A Christmas visit to South Africa and an introduction through friends to palaeontology experts from Wits University have had exciting scientific consequences for New Zealand...
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...
The Science Inside #36: South Africa’s water problem is massive
What does exploding homebrewed beer in Johannesburg suburbia to do with South Africa’s growing water problem? Find out by listening to this week’s edition of...
The next best thing to a time machine
by Sarah Wild
A “man” stands naked in the centre of the studio. In the dim light cast from a lamp on a nearby table, you can see...
How to crowdsource an atlas for a snake, a tortoise and a lizard
There’s more than just a few snakes (and tortoises, lizards and crocodiles, for that matter) to be found among the 485 pages of the newly...