The story behind every achievement

In a village in the Lowveld, a researcher has spent thirty years following the same families, year after year, to understand how people age in rural South Africa.

In a laboratory at the University of Johannesburg, a team has been building the layers of a battery one atom at a time.

At nearly eighty years old, a scientist who has no institutional funding left is still driving across Cape Town to give talks to anyone who will listen, because he made himself a promise that he would do this until th...

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