A camera for ultraviolet light led to an innovation that is now sold the world over.
The Square Kilometre Array Organisation is confident it will gain new member countries to fund the €2bn radio telescope.
Pluto is back to being everyone’s favourite planet that’s not a planet.
Tumelo Komape, known to the Twittersphere as TK, has the unenviable task of responding to an entire city’s complaints and frustrations.
Empathy from the council? The City of Johannesburg’s social media man gives service delivery gripes a human touch.
Anger has been growing over embargoes on published works that "limit access to knowledge and make academics’ work outdated".
Ever wondered what it’s like to use the internet at speeds of up to 10 gigabits a second? You may have to go back to university to find out.
Data and computing initiatives are joining forces to forge a high-speed research network for South Africa.
A groundbreaking local scientific study has found that homosexuality is completely normal.
Uganda is one of the countries in Africa where homosexuality is a crime, but its Academy of Sciences has agreed that being gay is a natural phenomena.