Toxic fungi: what’s in your food?
Theodora Ekwomadu North-West University In 1960 more than 100,000 turkeys died in the United Kingdom. The mass death – linked to peanut meal, containing chemicals […]
2016
Titanium: metal of the future
Michael Oluwatosin Bodunrin Wits University South African researchers are poised to fundamentally change the titanium industry, through developing a way to make less expensive titanium. […]
The goggas in your wine
Judy Lombard Stellenbosch University Freshly pressed grapes, which become the wine in your glass, are crawling with micro-organisms. From bacteria and fungi to yeasts, these […]
Know your (immune) status
Tamika Fellows Rhodes University A smartphone retrofitted with an affordable sensor device could give people the power to track their immune status in the comfort […]
Namibia’s fairy footprints
Andries van der Walt University of Pretoria A lone Gemsbok guards the wire gate to the Namib-Naukluft national park. Beyond it, ocre sand stretches into […]
Number the stars
Antonio Peters Rhodes University It looks like a faded old photograph: a reddish-black background peppered with pale orange specks. The dots, which are different shapes, […]
Local leafy greens to the rescue
Nolitha Nkobole-Mhlongo University of South Africa On a hot Eastern Cape day, my mother would stoop in the garden collecting imifuno for our midday meal. […]
Time marches on, but in which direction?
Kate Bryan Rhodes University Two theoretical physicists walk into an airport. The first complains that gravity is a real problem at the microscopic level, where […]
Editorial 2016
Sarah Wild Science Today editor South Africa needs science literacy as much as it needs scientific and technical skills. If people are not exposed to […]