The World Expo and Meetings Africa are all about stimulating innovation – and income
Salim Abdool Karim joins Newton, Hawking and Einstein as a member of an extraordinary society
With a science paper published after his death, Stephen Hawking has revived debate on a deeply divisive question for cosmologists
Project Breakthrough Starshot plans to send robot spacecraft to our closest star, Alpha Centauri, on a trip that will take 20 years.
Rowan Philp’s article about different opinions on the origin of our universe contains some differences with Liz Krusei’s article in March’s Astronomy.
Ten years ago Stephen Hawking made a bet with the man in the office next door at Cambridge University: SA’s Neil Turok, the son of ANC MP Ben Turok.
Stephen Hawking, world-famous cosmologist, and the team behind the discovery of the ‘God particle’, have won a $3-million science price each.
New devices give people such as Alan Martin, who has cerebral palsy, the chance to communicate properly for the first time.
Britain’s most famous living scientist, Stephen Hawking, will appear at the opening ceremony of London’s Paralympic Games on Wednesday.
British scientist Stephen Hawking missed a scientific debate marking his 70th birthday as he was only discharged from hospital two days earlier.
As Stephen Hawking turns 70 this week, scientists are baffled how he has managed to survive so long with such a crippling disease.
God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe, UK scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published from a new book.
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/ 15 October 2008
Giles Morris gives the lowdown on how to network on the internet.
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/ 9 September 2008
Stephen Hawking has bet that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science.
May was a momentous month for advanced scientific research and training in South Africa. Physicist Stephen Hawking was among our international guests.
World famous scientist Stephen Hawking met former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg on Thursday. Said Hawking: ”I admire how you managed to find a peaceful solution to a situation that seemed doomed to disaster. It was one of the great achievements of the 20th century.”
He’s been described as science’s first real rock star and the most famous physicist never to win a Nobel Prize. He knows black holes and p-branes inside out and he’s headed for South Africa. Cambridge Professor Stephen Hawking, author of the best-selling A Brief History of Time, arrives in Cape Town this week to deliver a public lecture, his first on the African continent.
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/ 7 September 2007
Nicole Johnston reviews Jeanette Winterson’s <i>Tanglewreck</i> and Michelle Paver’s <i>Soul Eater</i>.