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Quest Volume 1 Number 4 2005
No full textContents: Wonderful spiders - Spiders for silk threads and smart hunting: Genomics fights TB - Stopping the spread of TB: Understanding the TB bacterium - How TB works its devastation; Why it's so hard to combat AIDS - Fighting the ever-mutating virus; Elephantine dilemmas - The elephant population debate: Bringing queues into line - Mathematics to control queues: Eat right & live longer - Why not change to a healthy lifestyle?: The Namib's amazing fossil spider webs - Spider secrets in the sand: Fact file TB and HIV - deadly alliance: Science news: Viewpoint Backing the GMO horse: what are the odds?: Careers Engineers in a big industry: Your Questions answered - DNA and taxonomy: The S& T tourist Nature amid the glitz
Visit the Pilanesberg's animals and Sun City's botanical gardens:The Department of Science and Innovation: Academy of Science of South Afric
Quest Volume 2 Number 2
No full textContents: SALT "gigantic African eye" - How the largest single optical telescope in the southern hemisphere was built: Observing the Universe - Revelations from spectacular skies over southern Africa -The distance scale of the Universe - Light echoes reveal the structure of interstellar space - Borderline between neutron stars and black holes. Phil Charles -the next Galactic
supernova?- Clusters and superclusters of galaxies -First science with SALT: Views from space: Earth observation - Satellites and the electromagnetic spectrum: African starlore - Traditions from southern Africa: New era for southern African astronomy - Through SALT to a bright future: What is happening to the Earth's magnetic field? - Space weather, auroras, and the Earth's magnetic shield: The energetic Universe in gamma rays - Supernovas. cosmic rays. and new shapes in the Milky Way: Planning the Karoo Array Telescope - Bold new project for radio astronomy: Fact file SALT: empowering facts - More about SALT • A day in the life of SALT • Astronomy to
empower the country: Science news - A South African first for TB research - Lessons from cyclones: Careers In astronomy, the sky's the limit!: Your questions answered - Hurricanes: Viewpoint Interview On project management: The S& T tourist Gateways to the Universe - Visit planetariums - and Sutherland too: Books Africa's Giant Eye: Building the Southern African
Large Telescope:The Department of Science and Technology: Academy of Science of South Afric
Quest Volume 2 Number 1
No full textContents: Getting to grips with strong materials - Cutting-edge research advances South African industry now and for the future: Exploring fossils The Karoo - a fossil mecca - Earth's richest fossil deposits: Catastrophism and the history of life - Cataclysms. extinctions, and change: Early birds - Flying high: Treasure from the molecules of life - Discovering protein structures for biotech: Into outer space - Celebrating International Space Week: Fact file - Techniques for investigating strong materials: Science news -Dinosaurs: new South African discoveries - Don't cell-talk while driving; Friends bring longer life; World's
oldest dinosaur embryos: Careers Working with strong materials: Your Questions answered Space shuttle -Spider camouflage: The S& T tourist Palaeo-visits - See precious fossils and experience prehistoric worlds: Viewpoint - Unite to save Earth's natural capital: Books - The Story of Earth & Life:The Department of Science and Innovation: Academy of Science of South Afric
Quest Volume 1 Number 1
No full textContents: Crackdown on invasive aliens- The Working for Water success story and a Fact File: Genetics and race - How clear, really, is the biological definition of race?: HIV/AIDS -Getting the numbers right - South Africa 's Plan for treating HIV and AIDS: Quest for our earliest ancestors -the fossil story - News of the 4-million-year-old Sterkfontein homind skeleton: Birding around the world - Save that wanderer: E-learning for a 'new' economy -Virtual universities for Africa?: Flashback to 1904 Centenary year for the South African Journal of Science: The sky's the limit - Discovering the planet<oid?) Sedna - Star gazers at SAAO - Training African astronomers: Getting to know science - UWC and Sci-Bono help make SA more competitive: Still counting - Surveying South Africa's R&D - How have we progressed?: Measuring up - Crumbs & nibbles. sheds & barns: Careers - Work in the world of water: The S& T tourist
Elephant rock - Visit dolomite next time you're in South Africa's northern provinces
Quest Volume 1 Number 3 2004
No full textContents: Laser light fantastic- Lasers for industry, environment, and health: Tsunamis - Your Questions answered: Animals at risk - Protecting species the global way - Taking a biodiversity line: Penguins feel the heat - Cool nests are best: Kinkle the infrared
elephant - Thermography helps to track injuries: Managing fires: the science behind the smoke - Dealing with fires in South Africa: Sydney Brenner: a most distinguished biologist Keith Manchester His part in the DNA and RNA story: Careers - Working with lasers: Science news: Measuring up - Film & noise. beads & honey: Fact file - Understanding DNA: The S& T tourist Veld walk in the city
Geology, archaeology, and bush in the Melville Koppies Nature Reserve: Viewpoint interview - Why bother with physics?: Books - Coastal fishes of southern Africa:The Department of Science and Innovation: Academy of Science of South Afric