Contents: Laser light fantastic- Lasers for industry, environment, and health: Tsunamis - Your Questions answered: Animals at risk - Protecting species the global way - Taking a biodiversity line: Penguins feel the heat - ...

Contents: Crackdown on invasive aliens- The Working for Water success story and a Fact File: Genetics and race - How clear, really, is the biological definition of race?: HIV/AIDS -Getting the numbers right - South Africa ...

Contents: Wonderful spiders - Spiders for silk threads and smart hunting: Genomics fights TB - Stopping the spread of TB: Understanding the TB bacterium - How TB works its devastation; Why it's so hard to combat AIDS - ...

Contents: SALT "gigantic African eye" - How the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere was built: Observing the Universe - Revelations from spectacular skies over southern Africa -The distance scale ...

Contents: Getting to grips with strong materials - Cutting-edge research advances South African industry now and for the future: Exploring fossils The Karoo - a fossil mecca - Earth's richest fossil deposits: Catastrophism ...

This forum on Science-based Improvements of Rural/Subsistence Agriculture is the first in a series that are being convened by the ASSAf Forum steering Committee on Science for Poverty Alleviation. During 2005, the Academy ...

Water is a fundamental concern of virtually every nation, playing a diverse and often inter-dependent but vital role in the individual and collective lives of its entire citizenry. A single country like South Africa may ...

Two strands of influence have affected the publication of local scholarly journals in South Africa in the recent past. The first of these was the establishment of the Bureau of Scientific Publications that subsidized the ...

The Academy’s Double Symposium that was admirably arranged by Prof. Jonathan Jansen and executed by the staff of the Academy, had objectives that were concisely captured by the Minister of Science and Technology in his ...

Contents: Discovering our biodiversity Members of the South African Biosystematics Initiative - Getting to know the living species of South Africa What's new?: A new football for South Africa - A super-symmetrical ball for ...

Contents: Save the hornbills - Global threats - and solutions that work: Power to the nation - Making power go further - Getting the most out of what we've got: Protecting transmission - New ways to track fires under power ...

The availability of highly effective drugs to control HIV/AIDS and cure tuberculosis has tended to downplay the potential benefits that may accompany appropriate supportive measures, designed to complement or precede ...

Contents: International Polar Year - The South African National Antarctic Programme - Addressing the global issues: The 730-day International Polar Year - The history behind IPY: Southern Ocean hotspots - Underwater ...

Contents: Ancient artifacts, adornment, and archaeology - Mapungubwe's precious beads and figurines reveal Africa's distant past: Hidden worlds behind the Milky Way - The Zone of Avoidance, where galaxies have hidden since ...

Contents: Treasury of fishes - What it takes to set up a fish collection facility and make it accessible to all: Building the new SAIAB Collection Facility - Client, architect, and engineers construct a store for the ...

Contents: IYPE Out of Africa - South African National Committee for the International Year of Planet Earth - The world celebrates and the Earth sciences get down to business Features: African landscapes from remote sensing ...

Contents: Tracking elephants: the path to the satellite era - Remarkable ways of following animals in the wild: Mosaic of satellite data New nationwide hi-res views of - South Africa's land surface: A KhoeSan survival story ...