A Capetonian is among the team that has discovered a 125-million-year-old microraptor in China that sheds more light on how dinosaurs ruled the sky.
When plants are exposed to the vibrations that chewing caterpillars make, they expel a fluid the attackers dislike.
With AMS scientists can determine how old a fossil is much more accurately and quickly, without having to cut it up and destroying it.
A research team from the UK has compiled a "dictionary" of chimpanzee body language, where certain gestures mean certain things.
The Accelerator Mass Spectrometry laboratory, a first for the continent, "places South Africa among the world leaders in accelerator-based research".
Scientists believe the brain is key to treating weight problems, and are closing in on answers.
Sarah Wild reports from Euroscience Open Forum 2014, a platform held every two years to debate major science issues and showcase global science.
Scientists say the new discovery "is just scratching the surface of a long list of discoveries that will be made possible with the SKA".
The M&G’s science editor Sarah Wild gives tasters of the exciting science showcased at the Euroscience Open Forum 2014 in Copenhagen.
Mail & Guardian science editor Sarah Wild shares some exciting discoveries from around the world.