David Glasser: working towards economic benefits
On 29 September 1936, David Glasser was born in Alexandria in the Eastern Cape. A strong scholar, he was placed in St Andrews School in...
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Darrell Comins’ fascination with materials
by AdminBraai
Darrell Comins was born in Pietermaritzburg on 10 June, 1942. Attending Merchiston Preparatory School and, later, Maritzburg College, he followed what was then the traditional...
Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan: Breathing life into the bones of extinct animals
Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan (@Palaeo_Prof) was born in Pretoria, the youngest of three daughters. After matriculating from Laudium High School, she wanted to become a science...
Picking a rhino’s brain
Is a black rhino’s brain similar to that of a white rhino? Not quite, according to researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand. They say...
[LISTEN] The Science Inside: Radio waves, lost continents and skirt lengths
by AdminBraai
Want to know more about a cellphone that could charge itself, how to build a radio from scratch or how the SKA radio telescope is to...
The dream of electric cars
by AdminBraai
Time to rev your (electric) engine. Funeka P. Nkosi of the CSIR writes in Science Today about electric cars, and the relevant research being done...
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...
Why it’s still worth getting the flu vaccine this year
by AdminBraai
Is it worth getting a flu shot this winter? Dr Sibongile Walaza, a medical epidemiologist at South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases and lecturer...
Green diamonds of the Witwatersrand reveal earth’s shifty secrets
A group of researchers at the Wits School of Geosciences have pin-pointed the age at which the earth’s plate tectonics began. Their results were recently...
“Puff adders don’t smell … like anything” – meerkats, dogs
by Anina Mumm
These little guys learn much faster than dogs apparently, at least when it comes to learning how to pick out a snake’s scent from a...