The culprits who dumped Limpopo school workbooks near a Limpopo dam were still unknown by the end of the week and the saga had only deepened.
The search for the arcane, theoretical particle known as the Higgs boson has occupied thousands of researchers for more than two decades.
How does one explain the Higgs boson to a layperson, a child, an idiot? Just use this handy guide to selective explanation.
Thousands of scientists contributed to the discovery of the Higgs boson, and among them were some of South Africa’s brightest minds.
School workbooks now introduce another steaming pile of tender-related questions in this debacle, writes David Macfarlane.
Only one foreign representative from the Democratic Alliance has been left standing, writes Phillip de Wet.
The giggling president giggles no more. When Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki spoke, they did not repeat the same themes as if the world were static.
The Tories have seized on ideas that ministers gave Barclays the nod over its manipulation of interest rates, writes Nicholas Watt and Jill Treanor.
Women infected with a parasite spread by cat faeces run a higher risk of attempting suicide, suggests a study of more than 45 000 women in Denmark.
New technologies present immense opportunities but they must be used properly, writes Michael Rice.