University of the Western Cape (UWC) researcher, Dr Mattia Vaccari recently co-authored a Nature paper that could help explain the mystery of large elliptical galaxies in an early Universe. Vaccari is an SKA SA postdoctoral fellow in UWC's astrophysics group. For this prestigious publication, he was part of a team of scientists that observed what seems to be the collision … [Read more...]
Winter solstice liberates new light
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly … [Read more...]
Calls to halt Karoo fracking
In its written objection to Shell Exploration Company's application to use hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in its search for shale gas in the Karoo, Treasure the Karoo Action Group (TKAG) has called on the authorities for an immediate halt to any such plans, not only by Shell but by any other organisation seeking similar authorisation. In a critical review report containing … [Read more...]
