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Insight: Academia
Insight: Academia

Zen and the art of data science

Dr Sunday Oladejo turns curiosity into algorithms, tackling puzzles like hiking slopes and climate-smart fish farming.

Captain thorium to the rescue

How one NWU nuclear engineer is rethinking thorium and South Africa’s role in the atomic energy future.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

For smarter mining, look to digital tools

Why are mining companies struggling with decision overload? One engineer’s data-driven approach might change how the industry chooses its digital tools.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

Maties’ robotic revolution

Can a university project prevent South Africa from being left behind in the robotics revolution?

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

Sweet dreams are made of bioplastic

Two chemical engineering students met in class and now they’re creating sustainable plastic from sugarcane.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

The laboratory at the edge of the world

On a remote South African island in the Southern Ocean, scientists like Professor David Hedding are using cosmic rays to find climate clues hidden in rocks.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

Build it, and hope they will come

Bridging the divide between large-scale projects and local community needs.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

Feel the burn

Using AI and satellite data to predict who is most at risk during high temperatures.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

The monastery of mathematics

Building an African AI community.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

Radiation to rescue rhinos

Could an unlikely alliance between rhino horns and nuclear science put a stop to rhino poaching?

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline

Are deepfakes the next hurdle in education?

Without a plan in place, the potential for misleading micro-credential content could be disastrous.

Deepfakes
Tiana Cline

SKA will help us see galaxies far, far away

The University of Pretoria’s first PhD graduate in astrophysics is gearing up to use the world’s largest radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array.

Insight: Academia
Tiana Cline