The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 118 times since 1901 and 226 people have been awarded the prize. This year's Nobel Prize has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis. nobelprize.org/uploads/2025/1…

In the past year, #NobelPeacePrize laureate Maria Corina Machado has been forced to live in hiding. Despite serious threats against her life she has remained in the country, a choice that has inspired millions of people. When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to

Well deserved!

The latest book by Prof Letlhokwa Mpedi, Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Johannesburg (UJ) is now available. It was published by Tracey McDonald Publishers and I had the honour of editing it. #UJ #leadership #LeadershipInAction

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Pictured: Someone who actually won a Nobel Peace Prize

A reminder about the Nobel Peace Prize medal

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🚨 In a groundbreaking medical breakthrough, scientists have developed a universal antivenom that can protect against 17 different deadly snakebites, potentially revolutionizing emergency treatment in snakebite-prone regions around the world. Traditionally, antivenoms are

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On February 18, 1930, after nearly a year of searching and examining millions of stars, Clyde Tombaugh noticed a tiny object that had moved between photographic plates taken in January of the same year. Further analysis and additional photographs confirmed the movement was

RECORD-BREAKING DETECTION: With the help of the MeerKAT telescope, a UP-led team of South African astronomers has detected the most distant hydroxyl megamaser ever, a natural radio “laser” produced by merging galaxies more than 8 billion light-years away. Read more:

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto and showed us its true face, After traveling for nearly 9 years through deep space and covering about 3 billion miles, a breathtaking icy world with giant mountains, smooth frozen plains, and secrets no one expected.

Terence Tao, born in 1975 in Adelaide, is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant mathematicians alive today and arguably the smartest person in the world, with a reported IQ of 230. At age 2, he was teaching 5-year-old children spelling and addition. By age 21, Tao

The Planck-Einstein relation ✍️ This equation changed how we understand light. It showed that energy is not a constant flow. Instead, it comes in separate packets. The energy of these packets depends entirely on the light's frequency, or its "color," rather than its brightness.

What is consciousness? Is free will an illusion? And how does it manifest in the brain? These are questions that have fascinated scientists and philosophers for centuries. In our latest YouTube livestream, we explore the conscious mind with video stories and expert talks from the

Today marks the birth anniversary of Henri Poincaré (1854–1912), a pioneering French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher of science. Renowned as "The Last Universalist", Poincaré made foundational contributions to celestial mechanics, topology, chaos theory, and the early

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