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New description of a ‘dwarf’ pareiasaur from the Karoo Basin

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In only nine years between 2010 and 2019, Africa has turned from being a net carbon sink, to being a net carbon source.

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A new species of fossil staphylinine rove beetle from Orapa.

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Political theorist Achille Mbembe named 2024 Holberg Prize Laureate. The Cameroonian scholar Achille Mbembe is Research Professor of History and Politics at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Dung beetles share the load when it comes to showing their affection for each-other, when transporting a “brood ball”.

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Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England.

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Recently, one of my acquaintances, Frank, received an email late on a Monday afternoon with the subject line, “Are you still in the office?” It appeared to come from his manager, who claimed to be stuck in a long meeting without the means to urgently purchase online gift vouchers for clients.

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This experimental milestone allows for the preservation of quantum information even when entanglement is fragile.

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Wits Structured Light research amongst top 30 advances in optics worldwide in 2023: New approach to studying complex light features on the cover of Optica’s Optics and Photonics News.

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Top 10 Climate Science Insights Unveiled: Global experts in social and natural sciences unveiled the annual 10 New Insights in Climate Science Report.

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Wits researchers pioneer a new way of searching for Dark Matter. Researchers explore whether Dark Matter particles actually are produced inside a jet of standard model particles.

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The humble “plakkie” made its debut up to 150 000 years ago.

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Changes in the law will ensure that companies can’t go on ignoring inequalities in earnings and wealth in South Africa.

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During the Early-Middle Devonian period, a large landmass called Gondwana—which included parts of today's Africa, South America, and Antarctica—was located near the South Pole. Unlike today's icy conditions, the climate was warmer, and the sea levels were higher, flooding most of the land.

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New study shows signs of early creation of modern human identities. Ancestors collected eye-catching shells that radically changed the way we looked at ourselves and others.

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Wits launches new PG Dip in Science in the field of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

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Wits Bone Research Lab the only unit of its kind to show that a bone-forming protein can block growth of human squamous cell

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The Wits Neuroscience Research Lab (NeuRL) is working with an interdisciplinary team of researchers to build an immersive virtual reality laboratory. The team recently welcomed close collaborator Dr Harry Farmer, aSenior Lecturer in Psychology from the University of Greenwich, who delivered a hybrid seminar on how embodiment using virtual reality technologies can change previously held attitudes and beliefs.

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An initiative of Wits University’s MRC/Wits Agincourt Research Unit, the Traditional Healers Project convened two ‘open houses’ at local primary healthcare facilities – Rolle Clinic and Thulamahashe Community Health Centre in rural Bushbuckridge, Mpumalanga – in March 2023.

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Cratons are pieces of ancient continents that formed several billions of years ago. Their study provides a window as to how processes within and on the surface of Earth operated in the past.

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Researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) have outlined a new optical communication protocol that exploits spatial patterns of light for multi-dimensional encoding in a manner that does not require the patterns to be recognised, thus overcoming the prior limitation of modal distortion in noisy channels.

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The disastrous flood that hit Durban in April 2022 was the most catastrophic natural disaster yet recorded in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) in collective terms of lives lost, homes and infrastructure damaged or destroyed and economic impact.

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This is amongst the findings of the 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding, which comprises three papers launched in South Africa on 10 February and in the UK on 8 February.

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An international team of researchers, led by Professor Lee Berger from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits University) has revealed the first partial skull of a Homo naledi child that was found in the remote depths of the Rising Star cave in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Climate change is a truth of the 21st century that is difficult to avoid.