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: 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: 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 - ...

Probing our cosmic past: PAPER - an SKA project - takes us to the edge of the Universe; Exoplanets - the search for Earth-like planets: QUEST investigates the Kepler Space Mission; Clouds - an enigma in the climate puzzle: ...

Rural effluent disposal:A case for environmental education Lesley van Heerden and her team from Albert College, Prince Albert, show how we can all make a difference; Africa prepares for SKA: the African VLBI Network: Anita ...

Climate-smart urban agriculture in eThekwini: Jacob Knegtel and Sershen Naidoo look at ways that urban farmers can outsmart climate change; Aerial explosions: Genevieve Langdon tells all; Obsessive-compulsive disorder: ...

Modulating light: Dirk Spangenberg and Melanie Mclaren explain the applications of shaping light in space and time; Laser light: Andrew Forbes explains the science of lasers; Making movies of atoms: how to unravel ultrafast ...

Women in science: QUEST looks at the role of women in science through the ages; To infinity and beyond: women in space science SANSA has many talented women exploring the secrets of the Universe; Awakenings: Petrie Jansen ...

Climate change in South Africa - how are we tackling this?: QUEST looks at how local scientists are leading the continent's research into the effects of climate change; Water, fire and large mammals: Climate change in ...

Contents: Timing is everything: Hermann Uys explains the weird and wonderful world of time-keeping with atoms - How old is the Earth?: 'Deep time ' is a vital concept when working out the age of the Earth, Tebogo Makhubela ...

Contents: Living on what people throw away: Quest takes a look at the research on people who live on the edges - Urban agriculture: the answer to Africa’s food crisis?: Gareth Haysom and Jane Battersby say no - Climate ...

Contents: Cracking chemistry’s toughest bonds by Bronwyn White - Making electricity from waste water by Jennifer Couperthwaite - Algae driving our bioeconomy by Sarah Jones - Living with mosquitoes: a necessary evil? by ...

Contents: Africa’s giant eye in the sky: Inspiring society by exploring the Universe: Petri Vaisanen shows how SALT is expanding our Universe; A night in the life: Lisa Crause gives us a glimpse of a night at the observatory; ...

Contents: Time machine in my pocket: Hannah Worters shares the excitement of installing a new telescope; Degrading proteins: cell maintenance: Ben Loos looks at the amazing process of autophagy; African skies: Sivuyile ...

Contents: Our cosmic time machine: Rosalind Skelton explains how SALT is our cosmic time machine; A global JIGSAW puzzle: Geoffrey Grantham and Michael Knoper tell us how our planet is an evolving jigsaw puzzle; Hominin ...

Conservation through film (Lize Joubert-van der Merwe shares her excitement around a conservation documentary); ‘First light’: Expansion of the radio astronomy network to Ghana (Lorenzo Reynard showcases Ghana’s role in ...

A plague of plastics Morgan Trimble and Katherine Hutchinson look at plastic pollution - Seamester: South Africa’s University afloat postgraduate educationt sea. By Morgan Trimble and Katherine Hutchinson - Science at ...

Unlocking pinnacle point: from tape measure to tripod - Using novel technology to unlock the past - The Palaeo-Agulhas plain: An ice-Age refuge for Homo Sapiens Richard Cowling explains how early modern humans could survive ...

COVER STORIES: Studying chimpanzee language: how chimpanzee language is teaching us about our own, by Michael Wilson. A landmark in African marine science: Mark Gibbon explains the new EAF Nansen Programme. Studying the ...

The science of everything Reinhard Hiller explains how our understanding of DNA and the human genome can improve medical care - Precision medicine – Moving away from one-size-fits-all Stefan Kohler discusses how precision ...