Bushman medicine a possible treatment for antibiotic resistant infection
Tiza L. Ng’uni University of the Western Cape Small scale farmers and traditional healers in the Northern and Western Cape know when best to harvest […]
Every drop counts: watching water from space
Keneilwe Hlahane University of Cape Town The water is green, a clear sign that it is polluted. Dense mats of algal blooms float on the […]
How long until we lose the moon?
Sphumelele Ndlovu HartRAO, University of KwaZulu-Natal The Moon, every year, moves away from Earth by about 3.8 cm. It seems very small, about the width […]
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 […]
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. […]