How safe is our groundwater?
Clarissa van der Loo University of Johannesburg – PhD A girl walks through the dew-covered grass just before the sun rises. Other […]
Beating ‘famine’ with a beetle
Blair Cowie University of the Witwatersrand – PhD On the savannas and grasslands of South Africa, a biological war is raging. A South American […]
Fat rats and rooibos
Amsha Viraragavan University of Zululand – PhD Rooibos is not usual grub for Wistar rats. These particular rats have been fed a […]
Saving our coastlines
James Burns Stellenbosch University More than a billion people live along the world’s coastlines. But this coastal environment is under threat, endangering lives and livelihoods. […]
South Africa’s forgotten islands
Tegan Carpenter-Kling Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University South Africa’s research vessel, the SA Agulhas 2, is one of the few ways to reach the country’s only […]
The dream of electric cars
Funeka P. Nkosi Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Wits University Twenty years ago, it looked like the dream of the electric car was dead. […]
Ancient SA bacteria hold secret to early life
Gavin Rishworth Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University It all started 3.5-billion years ago. Tiny, microscopic bacteria hustled an existence on the coastal seafloor in a world […]
Guerrilla tree warfare
Darryl Herron University of Pretoria Alongside many highways and roadways in South Africa, pine trees stand like soldiers in formation. In their emerald green jackets […]
A new direction
Heinrich Laue University of Pretoria A poacher in the Kruger National Park has just made a kill. He takes out his cellphone to call it […]
Trees to the rescue
Maxine Kelly Joubert Wits University Mounds of yellow sand rise up along the road between Johannesburg and Soweto, haphazardly continuing as far as the eye […]