University of the Witwatersrand

Physicists have proposed a new model of space-time that may provide the 'first observational evidence supporting string theory,' a new preprint suggests.

The Horned Serpent panel at La Belle France in the Free State province of South Africa was painted by the San people at least two hundred years ago.

The San people acted as paleontologists and used fossil finds as a basis for stories and pictures.

Mthimkhulu's CV claimed he had multiple mechanical engineering degrees, including a prestigious one from Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand and even a doctorate from a university in...

"Every 20 hours in South Africa a rhino dies for its horn."

Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into to the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is the only one talking about this blueprint for authoritarianism.

For three decades, power in South Africa has had a three-letter name: the ANC, or the African National Congress.

Lerodalcibep, a third-generation PCSK9 inhibitor, reduced LDL by more than 50% vs placebo in patients with or at a high risk for CVD in the phase 3 LIBerate-HR trial.

BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 23 (IPS) - Amid an escalation of global conflict and climate change-induced displacements, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is escalating its donor campaign.

Researchers have a new way to assess an AI model's intelligence: drop it into a game of Minecraft, with no information about its surroundings, and see how well it plays

Yesterday at Africa Games Week, a talk discussed the challenges of the creative industries pipeline across Africa. The …

Climate change, civil war and international sanctions all contributed to the devastation caused by some of Libya's worst flooding ever, researchers say

Photos from around the city show delighted residents gallivanting among the snowflakes, which last coated the area in August 2012.

The patterns of light hold tremendous promise for a large encoding alphabet in optical communications, but progress is hindered by their susceptibility to distortion, such as in atmospheric turbulence or in bent optical fiber.

Researchers believe they have discovered possible burial sites dug by a smaller-brained human ancestor over 100,000 years before the oldest known human burials, a claim that "would revise the story of our evolution," The Washington Post reported. The scientists uncovered the possible sites while studying the Rising Star cave system northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, where they also found drawings of triangles…

The findings by Professor Lee Berger change our ideas about brain size and what we think is human.

Following reports of infant illness last year, the FDA investigated and subsequently issued a warning not to use products manufactured at the Abbott baby food plant. Abbott responded by voluntarily shutting the facility resulting in an acute shortage of baby formula in the US – and rampant hysteria. Given Abbott's strenuous denial that its products caused harm, one cannot help wondering if this closure was an…

Other lives: Lecturer and reader in experimental psychology who was a fount of eclectic information

From Zimbabwe, where many must work at night because it's the only time there is power, to Nigeria where collapses of the grid are frequent, the reliable supply of electricity remains elusive across Africa.