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ASTRONOMY

Inquiry-based training in physics and astronomy for Cape winelands intermediate phase teachers

The Natural Sciences curriculum content taught during the third and fourth school terms was covered in the final training session organized by Advancing Knowledge Non-Profit…

  • SKATT
5 min read
ASTRONOMY

Advancing inquiry-based teaching of physics and astronomy in the Overberg education district

Advancing Knowledge NPC’s professional development sessions for natural sciences teachers concluded their 2025 delivery in the Overberg Education District of the Western Cape…

  • SKATT
5 min read
Graphic: John McCann
BASIC SCIENCES

It is vital to build capacity in the basic sciences in Africa

Basic sciences, such as physics, maths and stats, advance human knowledge and push the frontiers of technology for the benefit of a sustainable society

  • Azwinndini Muronga
6 min read
Italian scholar and physicist Giorgio Parisi speaks to the media as he arrives on October 5, 2021 at the Lincean Academy (Accademia dei Lincei) in Rome, after co-winning the Nobel Physics Prize. – US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy on October 5, 2021 won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models and the understanding of physical systems. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP)
2021 NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS

Nobel prize for physics is a game-changer

The physics 2021 Nobel prize means the conversation is no longer about debating whether climate change is real, but rather what we should do about it

  • Azwinndini Muronga
9 min read
Class of 2021, you have struggled through a generation-defining time. We are so proud of you, whatever the results on that piece of paper
ANGIE MOTSHEKGA

Hawks make arrest in matric maths paper leak

Themba Daniel Shikwambana, who works at a printing company, was granted bail and is due to return to court in January

  • Bongekile Macupe
2 min read
(John McCann/M&G)
AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY

From Cairo (and jail) to a master’s at Wits

Students in South Africa should never give up hope because anything is possible if they keep on pursuing their dreams

  • Amir Abouelrous
8 min read
Mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck. (Image via Abel Prize)
ABEL PRIZE

Abel Prize for maths awarded to a woman for the first time

American Karen Uhlenbeck has won the Abel Prize in mathematics for her work on partial differential equations, the first woman to win the prize

  • Staff Reporter
3 min read
Boris Johnson
ASTRONOMY

Is maths any of their beeswax?

The humble honeybee is catching up to humans in the arithmetic game, but there is quite literally nothing to worry about

  • Matthew Du Plessis
4 min read
ACADEMIC RESEARCH

UWC celebrates science excellence

Bankrupt only a decade ago, the University of the Western Cape is now a research leader.

  • Victoria John
3 min read