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Prof Hafizah Chenia listens in on microbes to improve global health
Media release
Geoscience for everyone: word bank of geological terms in all South Africa’s eleven spoken languages
The Mineralogical Association of South Africa (MinSA) is proud to announce the successful completion of a pioneering lexicography exercise that has collated...
Natural and mathematical sciences
Former leaders in microbiology honoured in leading academic journal
The journal is recognised as a key publication for the global yeast research community, focusing on both fundamental and applied research, and is published by...
Institutional news
Prof Tammy Robinson-Smythe helps to keep invasive marine species in check
Prof Tammy Robinson-Smythe of the Centre for Invasion Biology in the Faculty of Science delivered her inaugural lecture on Thursday 14 May 2026. The title of...
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CODA supports international collaboration to advance microvascular research in complex chronic disorders
The Complex Disorders Alliance (CODA) today announced its support of an international research collaboration focused on advancing understanding of microvascular...
Natural and mathematical sciences
Harnessing big data and zeta diversity to explain African plant distributions
Africa’s plant diversity
There are >40,000 native vascular plant species recorded in mainland sub-Saharan Africa. Despite the impressive species list, much of...
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Insect body size is not constrained by atmospheric oxygen
Two researchers from Stellenbosch University (SU) were part of the team, led by researchers from the University of Pretoria (UP) and Adelaide University, that...