The world’s human population is expected to grow to nine billion by 2050, posing two significant challenges: providing enough...
Imagine that you could swim as efficiently as a shark. How would that feel? Well, you could find out if you had a skin...
The problem with breaking down waste plant matter into sugars that can then be fermented into bioethanol is that plant matter...
Health
The risk of dying from a range of cancers in many African countries (including South Africa) is...
Food
Finding ways to ramp up the ability of rural populations to derive economic benefit from natural...
Biotechnology
While luck may have something to do with accidental discovery, there is often at the heart of these stories in science an entrepreneurial mind.
Environment
Microbial fuell cells generate bioelectricity while “cleaning up” waste – effectively using the...
Insight & Opinion
by Earl Prinsloo “Dude, print me a new liver?” may become a commonplace request in the not too...
Wildlife
The most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates confirms an extinction crisis with one...