Climate change seems far away, but the truth is it affects you every day. Here's how, and how you can help.

Spring has sprung! It's a time of productivity, abundance, and blossoms, blossoms, everywhere! If you're lucky enough to have a garden,...

Makhanda/Grahamstown is a hotspot for science. You wouldn't think it. It's just a small city, and it's claims to fame are Rhodes...

I've noticed a lot of science students are quick to dismiss the value of the arts and the humanities. Here's the problem with that.

“I just basically saw a graveyard. The place is creepy.” “I understand about the bottles, but the tanks!” “It looked like more of a...

If you’re anything like me then you think a lot about your impact on the world. Everything you do impacts the environment somehow....

Let me start this off by saying that this is my opinion. You’re welcome to disagree, but hear me out. I saw a Facebook post the other day...

Our oceans do so much for us and we affect them every day. The 8th of June is World Oceans day. Here’s what you can do to help the sea....

Bite-sized sci is about everyday science and what science is more everyday that the science of food? We’ve talked about GMOs a little,...

From fertiliser to pollination, a lot of science goes into what we eat. What you eat can even save the world, but people tend to get a...

Plants breathe, just like animals. A lot of children don’t really understand this, and it makes plants seem less alive than they truly...

There are a lot of cool things about the sea. It covers more of the earth than land does. It’s the subject of many a myth or fairy-tale,...

Plastic is bad. Ever since we (young millennials) reached about grade 2 we’ve had the phrase “reduce, reuse, recycle” beaten into our...

Osmosis is the passive movement of water from a higher concentration to a lower concentration through a semi-permeable membrane. This...

A few months ago the UN announced to the world that we have 11 years before we reach an irreversible point in climate change. Once we...

We live in a binary age. You’re either a gay or straight, right or wrong, boy or girl. Nature is not binary. Humans have introduced the...

Life can be hard. Forreal. It's easy to get into a slump and think "I'm not ______ enough." (See? I bet you filled that space pretty...

South Africa has been in a drought for a few years now and every time I fly home (Johannesburg) from university the ever-present cloud of...

This year in my zoology class I've been working on a mini research project to do with microplastics. I had never heard of them until I...

Okay so there's a big fuss about conservation at the moment, particularly the conservation of the world's oceans. But really, what's the...