The "fundamental science" of today is the "applied science" of tomorrow.
Small satellites hold great potential to deliver valuable information to the country’s climatology, human and research science communities.
Fundamental research into the simultaneous optimisation of energy and water focused on minimising energy consumption and waste water effluent.
Helping to improve flat-panel displays while simultaneously applying this technology to a new generation of solar lighting systems for rural areas.
South Africa is already seeing the effect of the Research Chairs programme through improved research outputs.
Using small tubes that are placed parallel to each other could help produce compounds at far lower cost.
This relatively new field aims to combine existing pharmaceuticals with smart delivery mechanisms that could make the drugs more effective.
Knowledge of earthquakes is of great interest to the mining sector considering the threat to underground workers, but also for positioning facilities.
Cutting-edge work into understanding how cancer works: applying informatics to interrogate cancer sub-types to isolate the key signature of a tumour.
There are a number of sensitive environments, which also include culturally important "sacred places" that need to be conserved.