MATTERS OF THE ART Soil & Water — an international collaboration exploring the intersection of art and the environment 6 min 0 By Kristen Harding
BOOK EXCERPT Out of this World and into the Next — how life began on Earth, and how human civilisation will expand beyond it 5 min 0 By Adriana Marais
UNSUNG HEROES Itumeleng Molefe follows in his father's footsteps to unearth the links to humanity’s deep past 4 min 0 By Julia Evans
CRADLE OF HUMANKIND Wits reopens Sterkfontein Caves — ‘a time capsule of identity’ — after 2022 flooding damage 7 min 1 By Julia Evans
FIELDWORK AND LUXURY Global citizen scientists dig it: unearthing SA’s paleo tourism 6 min 2 By Bridget Hilton-Barber
BUSINESS REFLECTION Loaded for Bear: Shameful hat-trick - three SA World Heritage Sites are threatened by sewage 6 min 8 By Ed Stoddard
OUR LAND BEFORE TIME Greater Cradle Nature Reserve — a surprising origin safari to the roots of humankind 8 min 3 By Heather Robertson
PERSONAL REFLECTION A Sewer Runs Through It — trout, barbel and the microcosm of state failure in the Cradle of Humankind 4 min 8 By Ed Stoddard
THE CONVERSATION Sole survivors – South African scientists follow fossil tracks for clues about ancient shoes 4 min 0 By Charles Helm
BONE OF CONTENTION SA Heritage Resources Agency defends decision to allow rare fossils to travel with space tourists 4 min 1 By Shaun Smillie
SECRETS OF THE DEAD Scientists discover burials, symbols by extinct species in Cradle of Humankind 9 min 5 By Elsabé Brits
PALEO DATING New study challenges the age of oldest cave at Cradle of Humankind 5 min 0 By Elsabé Brits
EXCAVATING THE PAST The trail of red rust that leads to the beginning of human culture 7 min 0 By Angus Begg
ROVING REPORTERS ‘Greatest age of exploration’ — fossil finder Lee Berger recalls personal journey as world awaits ground-breaking new find 6 min 2 By Matthew Hattingh and Fred Kockott
BETTER SCIENCE OP-ED Why we need diverse storytellers of human evolution 6 min 1 By Robyn Pickering, Rebecca Ackermann and Wendy Black
THEM OLD BONES Professor Lee Berger, a ‘messenger from the past’, unearths major discovery in Rising Star cave system 10 min 6 By Yves Vanderhaeghen
Of Bikes and Hikes In the cradle of kinder humans — Johannesburg’s Wishing Tree 2 min 1 By Mark Heywood
